10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLAK SHIP»
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“To that flak ship. We're taking in too much water to make England on our own.”
Looming ahead on the far side of the smoke screen, a flat- decked barge,
bristling with anti-aircraft guns, wallowed in the tide: the flak ship. As the JU 88
pilots, ...
2
Bombs Away!: Dramatic First-hand Accounts of British and ...
The black mark became a German supply ship escorted by a flak ship. The two
vessels were steaming four miles off the Norwegian coast. Ahead the clouds
broke. Down went the Hudson in a skimming dive, until it looked as though the
pilot ...
The plane was out of range in a few seconds but his course took him above the
flak-ship, which stood in the sea like a rock awaiting the juncture of the enemy
line of flight with her own perpendicular. Everything she had she fired at once
and ...
4
Blenheim Squadrons of World War 2
It had a flak ship to starboard. 'I cracked on full boost and went for the merchant
ship. Both it and the flak ship opened up. The air in front became full of black
puffs with red sparks crossing them. That was tracer and it all looked as though it
was ...
FLAK SHIP. Floating antiaircraft batteries, escort ships of the type pictured at right
would give carriers necessary protection against both dive and horizontal
bombers. Heavily armed with multiple rapid-fire cannon and .50 caliber machine
guns, ...
3 November: U271 limped into Brest at 1330hrs, the U-boat's foray as a flak ship
ending in near disaster. After departing Brest during early October Kptlt. Curt
Barleben had set course for the seas west of the Azores to provide anti-aircraft ...
7
A Thousand Shall Fall: The True Story of a Canadian Bomber ...
Jake Walters — he who had been landing after the Hanover raid when the Ju 88
overtook him — was one of the few who lived to tell the tale after encountering a
flak ship at close quarters. Jake told the story splendidly after a few pints: how he
...
8
Into the Wild Blue Yonder: My Life in the Air Force
I think we sank the flak ship because two days later, it was gone. We did not stay
around to see if it sank, so we could not claim a ship. We were just glad to get
away. The tail gunner is convinced we had an extra crew member on board that ...
9
A Forgotten Offensive: Royal Air Force Coastal Command's ...
Aircrews found that it was difficult to distinguish between a flak ship and a
standard merchant vessel until an aircraft was well within range of flak defences,
and the heads of both Bomber and Coastal Commands felt that their charges
should ...
Christina J.M. Goulter, 2014
10
SKUA!: The Royal Navy's Dive-Bomber
11 The Ko'nigsberg's gunners were soon joined by fire from neighbouring
warships, including one motor fishing vessel described as a 'Flak ship',12 and
from guns ashore to the south-west, but none of the pilots were deflected in their
aims by ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLAK SHIP»
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Wing Commander Roger Morewood dies aged 98
The brave airman is pictured here attacking an Axis Flak ship as he flew his Bristol Beaufighter during a daring combat mission. His family said ... «Daily Mail, Dec 14»
