Arctic Airmen - Hardcover

Schofield, Ernest

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1862272913 ISBN 13: 9781862272910

Publisher: Spellmount, 2005

Synopsis

In 1942 a Catalina crew of 210 Squadron, based at Sullom Voe in the Shetlands, was selected to carry out a series of highly secret operations, including a flight to the North Pole. The sorties were associated with a Norwegian expedition from Britain to Spitsbergen, to deny the use of the territory to the enemy.

The flights made by the crew were frequently over twenty-four hours in length and reached the limits of human endurance, in conditions of extreme cold. Later, the squadron was detached to North Russia, to provide cover for the convoys taking vital supplies to the Allies on the Eastern Front. The navigator of the crew, Ernest Schofield, retained logs of most of these sorties.

Together with other survivors of the crew, accounts from German sources and research carried out by Roy Conyers Nesbit, he recreated these little-known events, in detailed and accurate narrative that ends in tragedy.

About this title

Synopsis

An illustrated, book detailing the experiences of the British air crew as they carried out secret operations including a trip to the North Pole, and their later exploits, all carefully researched and including accounts from German sources and survivors of the crew.

Edition details

• Publisher: Spellmount
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1862272913
• ISBN 13: 9781862272910
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256