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Flying Blind: The Story of a Second World War Night-Fighter Pilot
Joe Bamford
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Description for Flying Blind: The Story of a Second World War Night-Fighter Pilot
Hardcover. Bryan Wild joined the RAF aged 18 in 1940. By 1946 he had flown 14 aircraft types, seen action over Britain, North Africa, the Mediterranean, Norway and Germany, and lost all but one of his nine lives. His memoirs in words and photographs offer an insight into the life of a night fighter pilot: the tedium, tragedy and thrill of war in the air. Num Pages: 208 pages, 95 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 616.
Bryan Wild joined the RAF in 1940, a raw recruit not long out of school. Over the next five years, he flew fourteen different types of aircraft and saw action over Britain, North Africa, the Mediterranean and Germany. His memoirs capture the daily life of this everyman of RAF pilots: the thrill of flying and experiencing a new aircraft for the first time; the frisson of night flying in the early days when planes were not equipped with inboard radar; the tedium of hanging around with nothing to do contrasting with the intensity and urgency of action; and deep comradeships ... Read more
Bryan Wild joined the RAF in 1940, a raw recruit not long out of school. Over the next five years, he flew fourteen different types of aircraft and saw action over Britain, North Africa, the Mediterranean and Germany. His memoirs capture the daily life of this everyman of RAF pilots: the thrill of flying and experiencing a new aircraft for the first time; the frisson of night flying in the early days when planes were not equipped with inboard radar; the tedium of hanging around with nothing to do contrasting with the intensity and urgency of action; and deep comradeships ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781553459
SKU
V9781781553459
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About Joe Bamford
Bryan Wild's daughter Elizabeth assisted her father with typing up his wartime diaries. Since his death she has collated and assembled his material and undertaken further background research for this book. She lives with her husband in rural Herefordshire. Joe Bamford: I am the author of five books concerning military aviation during both world wars. Bryan became a good ... Read more
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