Ernest Schofield, Roy Conyers Nesbit

Arctic Airmen (eBook, ePUB)

The RAF in Spitsbergen and North Russia, 1942

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1942 a Catalina crew of 210 Squadron, based at Sullom Voe in the Shetlands, was selected to carry out a series of highly secret operations, including a flight to the North Pole. The sorties were associated with a Norwegian expedition from Britain to Spitsbergen, to deny the use of the territory to the enemy. The flights made by the crew were frequently over twenty-four hours in length and reached the limits of human endurance, in conditions of extreme cold. Later, the squadron was detached to North Russia, to provide cover for the convoys taking vital supplies to the Allies on the Eastern Front. The navigator of the crew, Ernest Schofield, retained logs of most of these sorties. Together with other survivors of the crew, accounts from German sources and research carried out by Roy Conyers Nesbit, he recreated these little-known events, in detailed and accurate narrative that ends in tragedy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750955447
• Artikelnr.: 40683399

Autorenporträt

Ernest Schofield joined the RAFVR (Volunteer Reserve) in 1940 and his tour of operations on Catalina flying boats ended in 1943. He was too valuable to lose and became an instructor for the rest of the war. Roy Conyers Nesbit joined the RAFVR one year earlier. He flew Bristol Beauforts and later Dakotas over Southeast Asia. He is the author of more than 25 books on air history.