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Twenty dramatic stories of real-life bomber crew are told by Mel Rolfe, who has previously written stories about men in war in, To Hell and Back and Hell on Earth.Rolfe interviews surviving members of crews from WWII and turns them into vivid accounts, taking the reader to the place and time in which they occurred. His stories demonstrate the amazing resilience of the human spirit and the unwavering courage of the men who helped to bomb the en...

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Lancaster pilot Victor Wood's aircraft arrived too early over Gelsenkirchen when the target was shrouded in darkness and the Main Force miles behind. His bomber was suddenly struck with terrifying force by flak and turned upside-down. An engine was on fire, the unconscious mid-upper gunner, slumped over his turret, was being sprayed with petrol and their bombload had been struck by shrapnel. Could Vic get his crew back to base safely? Find out...

Just one of the twenty new and true stories of bravery, survival and luck, good and bad, contained in this book.

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Twenty dramatic but true stories from World War II. Some of them defy believe, like the RAF bomber who was blown out of his plane over Warsaw without a parachute and returned in 1989 for the unveiling of a memorial on the crash site. Others defy logic, like two men of the same crew who survived a terrible crash, neither aware of the other's survival, but both saved by the tolling of the same church bell.These are gripping stories of the men wh...