We Sat Alone (RAF Bomber Command History) - Softcover

Whitfield, Fred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 179512458X ISBN 13: 9781795124584

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

Fred Whitfield DFM served in the Royal Air Force as a rear gunner on Lancasters with IX Squadron based at Bardney in Lincolnshire. This fascinating account uses his log-book to provide a chronological view of some of the thirty operations he took part in. Among those operations were the famous raids on the Tirpitz and the Eagles Nest (Hitlers mountain retreat) at Berchtesgaden. In his role as a rear gunner he scored 3 1/2 ‘kills’. Fred was awarded a DFM

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 179512458X
• ISBN 13: 9781795124584
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 47
• Editor: Swan Philip