Buy this book on-line THORBURN, GORDON: : BOMBERS FIRST AND LASTLONDON.ROBSON BOOKS,2006. ISBN 1861059469.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,contemporary b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with khaki+white lettering to front,b/w lettering to rear; with negligible shelf- wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,viii-ixpp+1-418pp [paginated] includes Squadron Combat report,12 chapters and a postscript,16pp contemporary b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp214/15 and pp262/3 respectively,an appendix,Roll of Honour,a bibliography,sources and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, contents list/table with dedication to reverse,acknowledgements (to aircrew and groundcrew) and 4pp blanks at the rear of the book.
No. 9 Squadron RAF Bomber Command,formed in 1914,went to the Second World War on 4 September 1939.The squadron's Wellington aircraft and crews were the first to hit the enemy,the first to get into a dogfight,the first to shoot down an enemy aircraft,the first to be shot down by one and,towards the end of the war,the first to hit the battleship Tirpitz with the Tallboy 12,000 pound bomb,an achievement by the crew of Lancaster W4964 WS/J on her 102nd operation with the squadron.
No. 9 fought with Bomber Command in Europe all the way through the Second World War,taking part in all the major raids and big battles,pioneering and providing new tactics and equipment, producing several of the leading figures in the Great Escape,becoming one of the two specialised squadrons attacking precision targets with the Tallboy and leading the final main force raid,on Berchtesgarden,on 25 April 1945; they were the only squadron - from first to last - to do all of these things.
This is the story of the war seen through the eyes of the men who flew with No. 9 Squadron and the men and women who supported them,of the very few men who lived to tell that story and the great many who did not.
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