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Night Fighter Over Germany: 'The Long Road to the Sky'
Night Fighter Over Germany: 'The Long Road to the Sky'
Night Fighter Over Germany: 'The Long Road to the Sky'
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Night Fighter Over Germany: 'The Long Road to the Sky'

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This WWII memoir of an NCO Royal Air Force pilot offers a vivid, personal account of wartime life and dangerous operations over Europe.
 
In 1941, Graham White was passing a Royal Air Force recruiting center and, on the spur of the moment, signed up. As a non-commissioned RAF pilot, he went on to fly long-range night-fighters against the Luftwaffe. White experienced badly designed and dangerous aircraft, such as the Beaufighter with its Merlin engine. But he also flew some of the finest planes ever built, like the “Wooden Wonder” Mosquito.
 
In this candid memoir, White offers a rare glimpse of what life was really like in that time of international crisis. He pulls no punches as he describes the blinding errors made by officers who conceived impossible operations for young airmen to fly. But he also shares tales of nights out on the town, when crews could relieve the stress of combat.
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Release dateMar 28, 2007
ISBN9781783460762
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    Good story about an area of RAF WW2 combat that has been obscured by the focus on the Battle of Britain. The development of a capable night fighter force was rapid and fraught with technical and human error. Many strange devices and airplane configurations were tested and found failing. Even more curious was the rapid disposal of the successful products such as the Mosquito and the P 61 Black Widow. at wars end. Pilot training was as onerous with many accidents and strange training methodology. "Dumbo" Wright lived to tell the tale and he does it quite well.

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