Veteran Lancs. A Photographic Record of the 35 RAF Lancasters That Each Completed One Hundred Sorties. Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives  -  Norman Franks

A Photographic Record of the 35 RAF Lancasters That Each Completed One Hundred Sorties

KORTE INHOUD

Aviation historians will know that the Avro Lancaster bomber is the most famous aircraft to have fought with RAF Bomber Command during World War Two. They will know too that, of the 7,366 that were built, over 3,400 were lost on operations and a further 200 plus were destroyed and written-off in crashes. Operational sorties flown totaled more than 156,000, carrying over 600,000 tons of bombs to targets all over Europe.

But this came at a terrible cost. With extensive losses on some night operations, occurrin...
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2016 Uitgever: Pen & Sword Barnsley 166 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1473847265 ISBN-13: 9781473847262