WELLINGTON: MAINSTAY OF BOMBER COMMAND
Written by Peter G. Cooksley
Published by Patrick Stephens
in 1987
ISBN: 0850598516
WELLINGTON: MAINSTAY OF BOMBER COMMAND
Written by Peter G. Cooksley.
Stock no. 1604988
1st.
1987.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0850598516. Spine bumped. Pages browned. Price-cut wrapper.
Front cover
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Prologue
- CHAPTER 1 Don't look down!
- CHAPTER 2 Victoria Cross
- CHAPTER 3 Frustration
- CHAPTER 4 The long way home
- CHAPTER 5 Sea Patrol
- CHAPTER 6 Striking force
- CHAPTER 7 From eagles to doves
- CHAPTER 8 Press on regardless
- CHAPTER 9 Fire in the bomb-bay!
- CHAPTER 10 In other climes
- CHAPTER 11 OTU
- Appendix 1 Representative bombing missions in the summer of 1940
- Appendix 2 Analysis of a typical tour of duty in a Wellington bomber
- Appendix 3 Official bomber camouflage pattern
- Appendix 4 Wellington squadrons 1938-45
- Maps and Diagrams
- Index