The Resource Voices in flight : the heavy bomber offensive of WWII, Martin W. Bowman
Voices in flight : the heavy bomber offensive of WWII, Martin W. Bowman
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Resource Information
The item Voices in flight : the heavy bomber offensive of WWII, Martin W. Bowman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- This book contains fourteen stirring accounts, each conveying an authentic sense of what it was really like to fly as a member of air-crew during the various bombing operations of the Second World War. The storytellers are an eclectic mix of pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, wireless operators and gunners who flew on operations in heavy bombers. It conveys the terror of being coned by German searchlights over the target, attacks by Luftwaffe night-fighters, often catastrophic damage to aircraft and the ensuing struggle to keep the machine airborne on the return trip to base. It tells of the com
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Prologue; Chapter 1: Millennium; Chapter 2: 'One of Our Aircraft Is Missing'; Chapter 3: Bomber's Moon James Negley Farson; Chapter 4: Bombing Berlin BBC Broadcasts; Chapter 5: The Ordeal Of Pilot Officer Romans DFC David Masters; Chapter 6: Last Man Out; Chapter 7: Operational On Whitleys; Chapter 8: Operational On Halifaxes; Chapter 9: Flying Officer 'X'; Chapter 10: B.12/36; Chapter 11: Rescue At Sea; Chapter 12: 'The Incendiary Load's Alight'; Chapter 13: The Night Of The Bombs; Chapter 14: The Kassel Raids of 1943; Index
- Isbn
- 9781473861145
- Label
- Voices in flight : the heavy bomber offensive of WWII
- Title
- Voices in flight
- Title remainder
- the heavy bomber offensive of WWII
- Statement of responsibility
- Martin W. Bowman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book contains fourteen stirring accounts, each conveying an authentic sense of what it was really like to fly as a member of air-crew during the various bombing operations of the Second World War. The storytellers are an eclectic mix of pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, wireless operators and gunners who flew on operations in heavy bombers. It conveys the terror of being coned by German searchlights over the target, attacks by Luftwaffe night-fighters, often catastrophic damage to aircraft and the ensuing struggle to keep the machine airborne on the return trip to base. It tells of the com
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bowman, Martin W
- Dewey number
- 940.54
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- D786
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- Visiting the Fallen
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- World War, 1939-1945
- HISTORY
- Military operations, Aerial
- Label
- Voices in flight : the heavy bomber offensive of WWII, Martin W. Bowman
- Note
- Includes index
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Prologue; Chapter 1: Millennium; Chapter 2: 'One of Our Aircraft Is Missing'; Chapter 3: Bomber's Moon James Negley Farson; Chapter 4: Bombing Berlin BBC Broadcasts; Chapter 5: The Ordeal Of Pilot Officer Romans DFC David Masters; Chapter 6: Last Man Out; Chapter 7: Operational On Whitleys; Chapter 8: Operational On Halifaxes; Chapter 9: Flying Officer 'X'; Chapter 10: B.12/36; Chapter 11: Rescue At Sea; Chapter 12: 'The Incendiary Load's Alight'; Chapter 13: The Night Of The Bombs; Chapter 14: The Kassel Raids of 1943; Index
- Control code
- 911054526
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781473861145
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)911054526
- Label
- Voices in flight : the heavy bomber offensive of WWII, Martin W. Bowman
- Note
- Includes index
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Prologue; Chapter 1: Millennium; Chapter 2: 'One of Our Aircraft Is Missing'; Chapter 3: Bomber's Moon James Negley Farson; Chapter 4: Bombing Berlin BBC Broadcasts; Chapter 5: The Ordeal Of Pilot Officer Romans DFC David Masters; Chapter 6: Last Man Out; Chapter 7: Operational On Whitleys; Chapter 8: Operational On Halifaxes; Chapter 9: Flying Officer 'X'; Chapter 10: B.12/36; Chapter 11: Rescue At Sea; Chapter 12: 'The Incendiary Load's Alight'; Chapter 13: The Night Of The Bombs; Chapter 14: The Kassel Raids of 1943; Index
- Control code
- 911054526
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781473861145
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)911054526
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