What the RAF Airman Took to War

By Bill Howard and Michael H. Wagner

Between July and October 1940, in what became known as the Battle of Britain, a nation held its breath while the pilots of the Royal Air Force battled Hitler's Luftwaffe in the skies above England. A huge number of airmen lost their lives in this hard-fought episode and in the four years of air campaigns that followed, and those who survived faced terrifying risks; as Prime Minister Winston Churchill put it, 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few'. In this beautifully illustrated tribute to 'The Few', Bill Howard catalogues the objects which were essential to every wartime pilot, from the superstitious good-luck charm to the parachute on which his life might have depended and a wealth of other poignant items relating to his day-to-day existence during the air war against the Nazis.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release date: May 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781784420772

Bill Howard

Bill Howard is a retired Oklahoma City businessman. He published the first of the Rick Wade mystery series, Rick Wade:Investigations/Murder in the City, just after his 83rd birthday. Two of the books are published and the third it ready to be published. The fourth is in progress. Bill and his wife, Juanita, live in the Shawnee Twin Lakes area near Shawnee, Oklahoma. A widower for eight years after the passing of his late wife, he and Juanita married five years ago and their blended family consists of eight children, sixteen grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren. Being reared in the small town of Coweta, Oklahoma during the depression years there was little time and money for entertainment so reading was a major source of enjoyment. Reading the mysteries of the earlier writers fascinated Bill and whetted his desire to write. Finally, fully retiring at the age of seventy five, he had the opportunity to fulfill that dream.

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Reviews for What the RAF Airman Took to War

[Tom · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A pleasant quick read containing lots of interesting tidbits on the RAF in WWII.