Once the day fighters had saved Britain from invasion, it fell to the night fighters to save her cities from destruction. At the beginning, interception by night proved virtually impossible, particularly, as the German bombers carried out their raids in cloudy weather. Soon, however, the navigator was presented with a mysterious little black box, which turned out to be the parent of airborne radar and the key to aerial tactics. This made a major contribution to the war in the skies, first protecting the British cities from the incessant raids of 1940 and later enabling the bombers to carry out their vital operations over Germany. 'Jimmy' Rawnsley, crewed with gunner 'Cats-eyes' Cunningham were among the first to use this new technology when it was introduced to the Blenheim they were flying and went on to become one of the RAF's leading night fighter crews, destroying over 20 enemy aircraft.
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An excellent, somewhat technical, read. 5 stars not enuf,
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From his trip through pre-war Germany, until he 'graduates' from flying intercepts, Jimmy Rawnsley puts you in the cockpit with one of the RAF's finest pilots, John Cunningham ( later, Sir John).Beginning with the earliest versions of the British Airborne Intercept Radars, through the technological innovations of the weapon, this book puts you in the cockpit with a well trained aircrew. It's one of my favorite reads.
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The best of all from my dad's WWII bookshelf.,
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When I was growing up, I read all of the World War II "I was there!" paperbacks that filled a six foot long shelf in my parents' bedroom.This one was the best of them all.
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Outstanding World War Two non-fiction,
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As a boy I read Night Fighter and was enthralled with it as a sort of real life Biggles adventure. In my twenties, as a pilot, I read it and was fascinated by the description of wartime aircraft and the constant struggle between measure and counter-measure in radar technology and aerial tactics over Britain. In my late thirties I picked it up again and discovered its human dimensions: its frank yet compelling account of the experience of being engaged in a total war where he and those like him had little real expectation of survival. Now, as an author, I'm deeply impressed with its language and composition, and of how it could be so satisfying a read to me on so many levels. By far my favorite WWII book.
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ALTHOUGH at the time I did not know what it was going to lead to, it all started, as I suppose it ended, with a bonfire. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
night fighter world, winding match, night flying tests, flying badge, ground echoes, ground trainer, operational flying, flying kit, hot tomatoes, standing patrols, own bombers, night fighters, perimeter track, exhaust flames, other aircraft, day fighters, enemy coast, patrol line Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Flight Lieutenant, Middle Wallop, Air Force, West Mailing, Fighter Command, Flying Officer, John Cunningham, Navigator Leader, Bomber Command, Commanding Officer, Edward Crew, Wing Commander, Bill Maguire, Pilot Officer, Per Bugge, Battle of Britain, Peter Green, Rory Chisholm, Flight Sergeant, John Selway, Sector Controller, Basil Duckett, Bomb Alley, Derek Jackson, First World War New!
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ALTHOUGH at the time I did not know what it was going to lead to, it all started, as I suppose it ended, with a bonfire. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
night fighter world, winding match, night flying tests, flying badge, ground echoes, ground trainer, operational flying, flying kit, hot tomatoes, standing patrols, own bombers, night fighters, perimeter track, exhaust flames, other aircraft, day fighters, enemy coast, patrol line Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Flight Lieutenant, Middle Wallop, Air Force, West Mailing, Fighter Command, Flying Officer, John Cunningham, Navigator Leader, Bomber Command, Commanding Officer, Edward Crew, Wing Commander, Bill Maguire, Pilot Officer, Per Bugge, Battle of Britain, Peter Green, Rory Chisholm, Flight Sergeant, John Selway, Sector Controller, Basil Duckett, Bomb Alley, Derek Jackson, First World War New!
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- Wing Commander: The Novel (Movie Universe, Book 1) by Peter Telep on page 216
- The Last Enemy: The Memoir of a Spitfire Pilot (Classics of War) by Richard Hillary on page 131
- Guy Gibson by Richard Morris on page 99
- Dangerous Sky: A Resource Guide to the Battle of Britain (Bibliographies of Battles and Leaders) by Eunice Wilson on 4 pages
- A Radar History of World War II: Technical and Military Imperatives by Louis Brown in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Aviation Book: A Survey of the World's Aircraft by Fia O Caoimh in Back Matter
- Dad's War: The story of a courageous Canadian youth who flew with Bomber Command by Dan McCaffery in Back Matter
- No Moon Tonight (Witness to War) by Don Charlwood in Back Matter
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