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Through Darkness to Light Patrick Macdonald

Through Darkness to Light Patrick Macdonald

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    Through Darkness to Light
    Patrick Macdonald
    FIRST EDITION.  Hard cover
    .  Pentland Press Ltd., 1990.  323
    pages.  Photographs.  Fine
    book
    in fine dust jacket.  Great copy!
    Beside the main road from Bucharest to the famous oil town of Ploiesti lies the beautifully tended Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery. While British Defence Attache in Romania (1979-82) the Author became curious to know how the 80 British and Commonwealth airmen, who lie in this peaceful place, met their deaths between May and August 1944. He discovered that they were from the RAF's 205 Group which, flying from airfields in the Foggia Plain of ltaly, was the night-bomber component of the Mediterranean Allied Strategic Air Force. They had lost their lives during the sustained day and night offensive against the Romanian oil industry and its distribution network, the transportation system supporting the German front in Moldavia and the mining of the Danube. The night attacks were on a smaller scale than the considerable and well-chronicled daylight efforts of the American 15th Air Force. Very little is known and even less has been published about the night-bomber attacks. On twenty-eight Spring and Summer nights bombers of 205 Group flew over 1,000 sorties against these targets. They delivered 1,200 tons of high explosive, countless incendiaries and laid over 260 mines in the Danube. The cost to the Group, against these well- defended objectives, rated third after Berlin and the Ruhr, was 254 aircrew. 154 lost their lives, 73 became prisoners, while 2l evaded capture and returned to Allied lines after many adventures. 46 bombers were lost. Patrick Macdonald's account of these operations is based on the contemporary official reports and intelligence assessments fleshed out by the recollections of many of the men who were there, from all corners of the Commonwealth. Photographs, many not seen before, add another dimension and there are nine maps, as well as examples of the leaflets dropped during the raids.
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