Don Charlwood, a wartime navigator with the Royal Australian Air Force, was posted in the winter of 1942 to 103 Squadron in Lincolnshire, England. Here he tells the breath-taking true story of a wartime bomber crew facing the hazards of bombing strongly defended targets such as Essen, Dusseldorf and Berlin, and writes sympathetically and understandingly of the hopes and fears of the crews as squadron losses mounted.
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Don Charlwood, a wartime navigator with the Royal Australian Air Force, was posted in the winter of 1942 to 103 Squadron in Lincolnshire, England. Here he tells the breath-taking true story of a wartime bomber crew facing the hazards of bombing strongly defended targets such as Essen, Dusseldorf and Berlin, and writes sympathetically and understandingly of the hopes and fears of the crews as squadron losses mounted.
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The author was an Australian who flew as navigator with the RAF in Lancaster strategic bombers on night raids over Germany in World War Two. In 2012 he died, as all men must. The amazing thing was that he survived his tour of ops to live to a fine old age. He wrote of The Twenty who trained together. There were five survivors from the Twenty at the end of his combat tour. This memoir is drawn from the diary he kept. He was painfully aware that his chances of survival were slim as his comrades disappeared one by one and crew by crew. So this is sobering reading. But that is what heroism is all about.
Brian E
Dec 9, 2012
Wartime brought to Life
In this short book, Charlwood has brought to life many facets of service in Bomber Command. From the basic blindness and uncertainty of flight itself as part of a team controlling a large aircraft, to the devastating reality that each mission could be one's last, each experience is told with a unique blend of factual brevity and unexpectedly frank emotion that constantly draws the reader on to the next episode.
And it's not without romance. Throughout the book, it seems, there is the underlying presence of Joan, whether specifically mentioned or not, and the uncertainty of the flying action is matched by the question of whether or not there will be a happy-ever-after ending for these two.
As the Lancaster bombers twist and turn in the air, so does the action on the ground in this intriguing narrative.
