Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1487574 in Books
- Published on: 2001-05
- Format: Illustrated
- Original language:
English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 296 pages
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Synopsis
Not since Dave McIntosh's acclaimed Terror in the Starboard Seat has a war memoir captured so completely the horror and camaraderie of the airforce during World War II. At times comical, at others tragic, Hewer's adventures during his life in bomber command were unique and exciting. He fell out of a bomber in training and was saved only when his boot heel got caught on the gunring. He survived a run-in with a Piccadilly Commando in London and he almost killed a wing commander on his first mission as an RAF driver. As a bright-eyed teenager dreaming of piloting planes over World War II Europe, Hewer could not imagine the vital role he would play in invading enemy skies as a wireless operator flying in Wellington bombers. In this thrilling memoir, he recounts his unique odyssey through a dangerous time.
