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Tempsford Academy: Churchill´s and Roosevelt´s Secret Airfield
Bernard O´connor
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Description for Tempsford Academy: Churchill´s and Roosevelt´s Secret Airfield
Hardcover. Offices were set up in London and establishments for the training and deployment of US secret agents into occupied Europe as well as assisting the SOE in supplying the resistance. Until an airfield was built for their clandestine operations, OSS agents were flown out from RAF Tempsford, Churchill's Most Secret Airfield. Num Pages: 160 pages, 20 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKESD; 3JJH; JPSH; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
RAF Tempsford, a remote Second World War airfield between Cambridge and Bedford, was designed by an illusionist to give over-flying enemy pilots the impression it was a disused airfield. Home to the RAF's Special Duties Squadrons, it was only used on the clear nights on either side of the full moon. Flying low and without lights, brave pilots and aircrews carried many hundreds of tons of arms and supplies to resistance groups north of the Arctic Circle, east to Czechoslovakia and Poland, southeast to the Balkans and south as far as the Pyrenees and Italy. 'The Tempsford Academy' tells the ... Read more
RAF Tempsford, a remote Second World War airfield between Cambridge and Bedford, was designed by an illusionist to give over-flying enemy pilots the impression it was a disused airfield. Home to the RAF's Special Duties Squadrons, it was only used on the clear nights on either side of the full moon. Flying low and without lights, brave pilots and aircrews carried many hundreds of tons of arms and supplies to resistance groups north of the Arctic Circle, east to Czechoslovakia and Poland, southeast to the Balkans and south as far as the Pyrenees and Italy. 'The Tempsford Academy' tells the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media Ltd
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781550038
SKU
V9781781550038
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Ref
99-50
About Bernard O´connor
Born and brought up in the industrial north-east of England, Bernard O'Connor went on to teach Humanities and English in Taiwan, China and Australia. Now living near Cambridge, UK, he has researched and published widely on the social, economic, environmental and archaeological impact of the nineteenth century coprolite industry, the geology, archaeology and history of the Mawddach estuary in North ... Read more
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