BOMBERS FIRST AND LAST :: World War II :: Time Periods

The story of Bomber Command’s most durable squadron, No. 9, who went to war on the first day and ended it by bombing Hitler’s mountain home.

No. 9 Squadron of RAF Bomber Command really were the first of the Few: they went into action on the second day of the war ( September 4th 1939); theyt were the first to engage the enemy; the first to get in a dogfight; the first to down an enemy aircraft ( and the first to be shot down by one); and later on in the war became the first to bomb the Bismarck’s sister ship Tirpitz while she was hidden in a Norwgian fjord. No. 9 fought through the war from the first to last, graduated from early Wellingtons to later Lancasters and provided some of the men who staged the ill-fated Great Escape from their PoW camp in Germany. They finished the war in the style to which they had become accustomed : by bombing HItler’s mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden to ruins in April 1945. This is their story.

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Product Code:	10480
Author:	Gordon Thorburn
ISBN:	9 781861 059468
Format:	418pp, b/w photographs, hb. Published Price £18.99
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