WW2 RAF Bomber Command biography Lancaster Wireless Operator Reg Payne

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NEW TITLE FROM LAUNDRY COTTAGE BOOKS PUBLISHED JUNE 2013

 

From Kenneth Ballantyne, author of the best selling "Another Dawn Another Dusk" comes this fascinating, revealing and powerful biography of well-known WW2 RAF Bomber Command veteran, Reg Payne.  Reg was wireless operator in the remarkable Lancaster crew of Flt Lt Michael Beetham, now Sir Michael Beetham, Marshal of the Royal Air Force. 

Reg's childhood years in Kettering before the war give a wonderful insight into a world unrecogniseable today. After a year in the Home Guard, he followed his brother Arthur into the RAF and joined the Beetham crew; one that would face all the terrors of the night skies over Germany.

The Battle of Berlin during the winter of 1943/44, saw the crew's thirty operations include ten trips to the German capital and to Nuremberg on the diasastrous night of 30th/31st March 1944. This veteran crew only just survived the dangers that awaited them. Fighter attacks, searchlights, anti-aircraft fire, fuel shortages, engine failure over the target, a bomb through their wing, and baling out of a blazing Lancaster were just some of their challenges. 

First Wave is offered for sale as a signed copy and if requested the author would add your own personal message.

This is the third title of three popular WW2 books written by the well known author Kenneth Ballantyne, the others being "Another dawn Another Dusk" and "All the Things You Are" which are also available on e-bay as signed copies at £10.

Ideal present or self-indulgence.

302 pages; 47 b&w photos most previously unpublished and all reproduced on high quality paper.

P&P £1.00 in UK. Overseas rates please refer to postage details.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions about this book or any of our other titles. 

Once again very many thanks for your interest.

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Also available from ebay is the wonderful opportunity to aquire an amazing large print of one of Reg's excellent artworks signed by him  ( a self taught artist now 91 ) and originally painted about 25 years ago. Entitled "First Wave" it depicts Lancaster and Halifax's forming up into the bomber stream leaving the English coast. For futher details search Reg Payne print.

 

 

 

 

  • Condition: New
  • Format: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Signed
  • Subject: Military/War
  • Time Period: WW2
  • Subject 3: Biography
  • Publication Year: 2013

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