A Bomber Command book with a difference. Rear Gunner Pathfinders is the story of the air war over Germany as seen from the small Perspex bubble of a 'Tail-End Charlie' rear gunner in a Lancaster. Flying firstly with 626 squadron, and later 156 Pathfinder squadron, Ron Smith flew 65 operations and recorded them with the intensity brought on by the isolation of being cocooned in his lonely gun turret.
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Foreword
1 ‘Ten Minutes to the Enemy Coast
2 Operational
3 Berlin Again
4 On to Pathfinders
5 Visual Markers
6 Collision Course
7 Nuremberg
8 Preparation for D-Day
9 Back to Germany
10 Carry On
11 Leave
12 There Is a Future!
A Victory Message
B Bomber Command Aircraft Losses
C Bomber Command Crew Losses
D Rear Gunner, from the poem by Ron Smith
E 156 (Pathfinder) Squadron
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A Bomber Command book with a difference. Rear Gunner Pathfinders is the story of the air war over Germany as seen from the small Perspex bubble of a 'Tail-End Charlie' rear gunner in a Lancaster. Flying firstly with 626 squadron, and later 156 Pathfinder squadron, Ron Smith flew 65 operations and recorded them with the intensity brought on by the isolation of being cocooned in his lonely gun turret.
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