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Coming Down in the Drink
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Sivumäärä: 208 sivua
Asu: Kovakantinen kirja
Julkaisuvuosi: 2017, 26.06.2017 (lisätietoa)
Kieli: Englanti
Coming Down in the Drink is the story of Flight Lieutenant John Brennan DFC. John is an Irishman who need not have fought in the war at all. A sense of adventure took him to London where he trained as a chef before joining the RAF and qualifying as a wireless operator/air gunner. Posted to 148 Squadron in the Middle East in 1941, John was soon in the fray as the front gunner of a Wellington, flying daily sorties to Benghazi in what was known as 'the mail run', bombing enemy ships that were offloading vital supplies to Rommel and the Afrika Korps. As much at risk from faulty engines as enemy action, John completed a tour of almost 300 hours of operational flying, including an operation in March 1942 in which his Wellington suffered an engine failure and came down in the sea. He thus became a member of the Goldfish Club. Posted home and commissioned, he spent time instructing in Scotland, surviving another accident in which his pilot crashed into a mountainside. Volunteering for a second tour, John joined 78 Squadron in the summer of 1944, being crewed with one of the flight commanders.He completed his tour, this time as a wireless operator, in March 1945, by which time they were operating in daylight in support of the Allied advance.
He was awarded the DFC. John is one of the only surviving wartime members of the Goldfish Club, and has a fascinating record of 63 operations that covers both the 'forgotten' bombing war in the Middle East in 1941/42, operating from strips of sand in the barren desert, to a main force heavy bomber squadron in the snow of Yorkshire at the end of the war.

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ISBN:
9781473891531
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