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BOMBER BOYS
FIGHTING BACK
1940–1945
PATRICK BISHOP
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Plans of Stirling, Mosquito and Wellington bombers
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Maps of Bomber Command Stations, Targets in Europe, Germany,
and the Ruhr Valley by John Gilkes.
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Source ISBN: 9780007189861
Ebook Edition © MARCH 2011 ISBN: 9780007280131
Version: 2014-09-17
Contents
7 The Feast of St Peter and St Paul
To Peter, Margaret, Amelia
and Daniel
In the early summer of 1961, sophisticated