By Richard Townshend Bickers
WWII. 1943.
Along the coasts of occupied Europe, moves opposed to enemy transport are one of the most deadly of the R.A.F.’s operations.
Even extra deadly are assaults on enemy-held harbours.
Most perilous of all…: air moves within the fjords of Norway. slender and twisting, precipitous mountains tower on each side. Freezing water ability dying to any airman shot down.
As bold pilot Bob Allard and his navigator Stephen Barnes set of on one such project, they've got little concept of what awaits them…
An emergency touchdown in Nazi-occupied Norway marks the genuine starting in their adventure.
Can they live on in those inhospitable stipulations, break out catch by means of the Germans, and get in touch with the underground Milorg crew to safe their method home?
Depicting the braveness and resistance of the Norwegians below brutal Nazi oppression – and the ability and crafty of those R.A.F. airmen – ‘The Beaufighters’ compellingly intertwines the narratives of those international locations of their struggle opposed to the Germans.
Praise for Richard Bickers:
'A exciting web page turner.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling writer of 'Trade Off'.
Richard Townsend Bickers volunteered for the RAF at the outbreak of the second one global conflict and served, with an enduring fee, for eighteen years. He wrote more than a few army fiction and non-fiction books, together with ‘Torpedo Attack’, ‘My Enemy got here Nigh’ and ‘Summer of No Surrender’.
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A crewmate would ask. “For a walk,” Gannaway would say. At the Atlanta airport, he walked the terminals, downstairs, alongside the internal subway. A couple times, flight attendants tried to walk with him, but they quickly gave up because they couldn’t keep up with his brisk pace. Ed Gannaway’s own father, Lawrence Craig Gannaway, a turkey farmer in Draper, Virginia, had died of a heart attack at forty-seven—a death that devastated Ed, then six years old. Though his mother later remarried, and he grew close to his stepfather, Ed Gannaway always felt cheated that he’d never really known his father.
Fech and Price lived in the same apartment complex near the Macon airport. A romance blossomed. ” She was also a good listener. Price, solemn and inward, told Fech his most private thoughts. , talking about everything and nothing, about love and life. They took trips to N i n e M i n u t e s , Tw e n t y S e c o n d s • 23 Florida, spur of the moment, leaving at seven o’clock on a Monday morning, when Price got off work, or to Lake Sinclair, near Milledgeville, to sit by the water with their cigarettes and a twelve-pack of beer.
Hardly the stuff of dreams, but she was getting by, having some fun, and Chris Price played a large part in the equation. Fech and Price were based in ASA’s maintenance shop at Macon’s airport, ninety miles south of Atlanta. The maintenance hangar was set alongside the runway, just down from the main terminal, so close that mechanics walked from one to the other. In Macon, ASA stationed eight flight crews—captains, first officers, and flight attendants—plus about forty mechanics. It was a tightly knit group with a fondness for cigarettes and a romance with flight.