Battle Under the Moon : The Disastrous RAF Raid on Mailly-Le-Camp, 1944
by
Jack Currie
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1910809802
ISBN-13
9781910809808
Publisher
Crecy Publishing
Imprint
Goodall Publications Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 21st, 2022
Print length
184 Pages
Weight
184 grams
Dimensions
12.80 x 19.70 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000Military historyAir forces & warfareMilitary aircraft
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This is a gripping account of the ill-fated RAF raid, on 3 May 1944, on the Panzer tank depot and military barracks at Mailly-le-Camp south of Rheims in northern France, part of the softening up process on German military targets, in preparation for the D-Day landings.
This is a gripping account of the ill-fated RAF raid, on 3 May 1944, on the Panzer tank depot and military barracks at Mailly-le-Camp south of Rheims in northern France, part of the softening up process on German military targets, in preparation for the D-Day landings. Raids like this over occupied France were considered relatively low risk affairs and only counted for one third of a mission for the crews concerned. In total, 362 RAF bombers, Lancasters, Mosquitoes and Halifax, from bases in England took part in a raid and although no-one involved anticipated disaster, forty-two Lancasters never returned home. Almost incredibly, those who planned the attack were apparently unaware that four German night fighter bases were located nearby. Luftwaffe fighters wreaked havoc on the bombers as they circled a marker in bright moonlight awaiting the order to attack their targetThis is the story of that battle, bitterly contested and ever-remembered by those who were engaged, one among hundreds that were fought in the skies over Europe between the RAF''s bombers and the Luftwaffe''s night-fighters in the course of World War Two. It lasted less than sixty minutes but cost two hundred and fifty-five lives.
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