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Through the Bombsight Andrew Maitland

Through the Bombsight Andrew Maitland

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    Through the Bombsight
    Andrew Maitland, DFC and Bar
    FIRST EDITION.  Hard cover
    .  William Kimber, 1986.  198
    pages.  Photographs.  Fine
    book
    in fine dust jacket.  Great copy!
    Andrew Maitland carried out 74 operational sorties as a bomb aimer with Bomber Command. His first tour was with 76 Squadron flying Halifaxes from Linton-on-Ouse and then Holme in Yorkshire. Time and time again he flew to Happy Valley, the heavily defended cities of the Ruhr. He was on the Peenemfinde Raid and six days later on the major raid on Berlin. He was one of the ten per cent who were the lucky ones. He and the rest of his crew came through unscathed physically. But the strain took its toll as time after time the target map showed the Ruhr. Tired of the non-operational life after his first tour he volunteered for Pathfinders, the famous force under the command of Air Vice Marshal Don Bennett and from September 1944 to the end of the war flew Lancasters with 7 PFF Squadron at Oakington. Here he ended his career in a deputy master bomber crew.While describing his own role in all his operations, Andrew Maitland writes of his admiration for his two wartime leaders, Arthur Harris and Don Bennett, and of the contribution made by Bomber Offensive in the winning of the Second World War.
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