10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOMB AIMER»
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bomb aimer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
bomb aimer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Diary of a
bomb aimer: training in America and flying with ...
The book is particularly emotive as he wrote in the common parlance of those wartime days and truly reflects the emotions, fears and feelings of those caught up in that mighty conflict.
Campbell Muirhead, Philip Swan, 2009
2
Bomb Aimer Over Berlin: The Wartime Memoirs of Les Bartlett DFM
The bomb aimer's panel was situated on the forward side of the nose and
contained all the equipment that Les needed to carry out his task. In the top left-
hand corner were sixteen bomb selector switches. Below these was the timing
device ...
3
RAF liberator over the Eastern Front: a
bomb aimer's Second ...
Jim Auton was posted to 178 Squadron who were operating ex-USAAF, war-weary Liberator heavy bombers.
4
World War II: An Airman Remembers
While on 61 Squadron, I flew with four other crews before I completed my tour of
operations. As far as I can recall, I experienced no personality clashes. I
continued to fly as a bomb-aimer but was not particularly happy. I had joined the
RCAF ...
5
Dambusters - Operation Chastise 1943
In May 1943 a specially established RAF squadron made its permanent imprint on military aviation history by flying a high-risk, low level, nighttime attack against German hydro-electric dams vital to the Nazi armaments industry in the Ruhr ...
6
German Guided Missiles: Henschel Hs 293 and Ruhrstahl SD 1400X
The falling Fritz X, correctly aimed, appeared to the bomb aimer to be
undershooting until the final several seconds when it suddenly surged for the
target. The explanation for this phenomena was that while the missile's forward (
not ...
The bomb aimer typed at the keyboard the correct sequence of commands and
waited. The plane vibrated as the bomb bay doors swung open into the stream of
air flowing under the aircraft. The screen confirmed a positive for all doors open.
8
Kicking the Sacred Cow: Questioning the Unquestionable and ...
Thus, somebody on the ground following a bomb released from an aircraft will
watch it describe a steepening curve (in fact, part of an ellipse) in response to
gravity, while the bomb aimer in the plane (ignoring air resistance) sees it as ...
9
To War With The Royal Air Force
The work was split up into a one-man Navigator/Bomb Aimer for light bombers
and a separate Navigator and Bomb Aimer for the bigger four-engined bombers.
So I was now a Nav/B crewed as a Bomb Aimer as there were insufficient trained
...
10
Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War 1944-45
Over the target, with the bomb aimer calling his instructions to the pilot – 'Steady,
skipper, hold her straight' – and shells bursting all around, every second felt like a
week. Sitting in his rear turret, Ron Smith used to will the bomb aimer 'to drop ...
John Nichol, Tony Rennell, 2005
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOMB AIMER»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
bomb aimer is used in the context of the following news items.
True story of wartime adventure
The bomb aimer had been hit. This took place over five minutes. The bomb aimer's leg was severed at the knee. He was suffering from shock, ... «Morpeth Herald, Jul 15»
'France does not forget'
He then shot up the front and attacked the bomb aimer who was lying on the escape hatch ... When we landed he never flew again.” Possibly ... «Namoi Valley Independent, Jun 15»
Memory of Aussie airmen lives on
Bird, the navigator, and four other members of the crew — skipper Bill Manuel, from Victoria, bomb aimer George Macoun, wireless operator ... «The West Australian, Jun 15»
WWII bomber brought home by Swansea airman's family after battle …
... 29; Navigator Flt Sgt George Bowering Kirby, 22; Wireless Operator Gordon Stuart Grogan, age unknown; Canadian Bomb Aimer Pilot Officer ... «South Wales Evening Post, Jun 15»
Platinum couple Charlie and Jacqueline Prior of Mill Road, Hawley …
Charlie served as an air gunner and bomb aimer with RAF Bomber Command while Jacqueline was an aircraft plotter in the Royal Artillery. «Kent Online, Jun 15»
RAF escaper Tom Wingham flew on final wartime operations against …
Flt Lt Wingham completed a tour of 30 operations as a bomb aimer on Halifaxes and had joined 76 Squadron for a further tour when he was ... «Cambridge News, May 15»
Squadron reunion
Sqn Ldr John Bell, a wartime Lancaster bomb aimer with 617 Sqn, and Australian author Sandra Lee who is collecting material for a book ... «Horncastle News, May 15»
Only flying WW2 Bristol Blenheim aircraft soars over Duxford
Ian Blair served as a gunner, navigator and also a bomb aimer on Blenheims during the war. He's 96 and lives in Huntingdon. Ian Blair, 96 from ... «ITV News, May 15»
Trip seven decades in the making
Robertson was a bomb aimer with the Royal Canadian Air Force, stationed with RAF 158 Squadron in England. On the night of May 12, 1944, ... «Belleville Intelligencer, May 15»
Woodhall Spa Dambusters memorial damaged
Pilot Les Munro, then 94, and bomb aimer George 'Johnny' Johnson, then 91, said the black granite sculpture in Woodhall Spa was very fitting. «Lincolnshire Echo, May 15»
