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United States antisubmarine aircraft played an unsung but vital role in this campaign. Here's What You Need to Remember: This triumph came with a heavy cost. During their time in England, USAAF antisubmarine squadrons lost 12 planes and 102 men due to enemy action, accidents, or causes unknown. Navy patrol bomber losses over the bay amounted to 16 aircraft and 157 crewmen. In return, American sub hunters received credit for sinking 13 U-boats from February 1943 to the end of Biscayan operations 18 months later. “Am over enemy submarine in position …” Cut off in mid-transmission, this c...

Book Description Cornerstone, United Kingdom, London, 1988. Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Terence O'Brien, a young Australian, had already survived a full tour of bombing missions with Coastal Command, and should have been resting from operations at the RAF's request, when he volunteered to join the Chindits - army units operating behind enemy lines in Burma who depended on air communications for their very existence. This is O'Brien's memoir of his days with the 4/9th Gurkhas in the remote mountainous region between northern Burma and Yannan - among the strangest and most exacting militar...

The hidden history behind 19 Lincolnshire RAF airfields from the Second World War Some are still well known names while some have disappeared into the mists of time The abandoned RAF North Coates as it is now with the main runway running east towards the sea During the Second World War, Lincolnshire became an important part of the allied war machine with its flat landscape proving a perfect staging ground for around 50 RAF bases during the conflict. Such was the importance of the area to the war effort that the it was dubbed Bomber County for the large number of airfields and bases it conta...

Air Commodore Peter Malam Brothers destroyed 16 enemy aircraft during WWII  Was veteran of Battle of France, the Battle of Britain, the Dieppe raid and D-Day Most of his 'kills' came in 1940 when he served as one of the 'The Few' Air Commodore Brothers was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross twice Also received the Distinguished Service Order and the CBE for bravery  

The Decline of the Luftwaffe As a Maritime Power. Lawrence Patterson’s “Eagles Over the Sea 1943- 45”. Book Review. Ray Garbee Eagles Over the Sea 1943-45. Seaforth Publishing. 2020.  Author: Lawrence Patterson. 382 pages. ISBN-10: 1526777657 In Eagles over the Sea 1943-45, Lawrence Patterson focuses on the lens of maritime air operations to illuminate the decline of the Luftwaffe in the later half of World War II.  While maritime air operations drive the narrative, Patterson also highlights the organizational challenges and personality clashes that contributed to the de...