Ebook: Last of the Lancasters

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Prologue S.D. Clewer; Chapter 1: The First 'Daylights'; Chapter 2: Lady Luck Pilot Officer 'Chad' Chadwick; Chapter 3: Bomber Boys Martha Gellhorn; Chapter 4: The Seven Survivors Flight Lieutenant Jack Gowan DFC; Chapter 5: Night Of No Return D.I. Jones DFC; Chapter 6: Night Trip To Munich D.W. Pye; Chapter 7: No Particular Courage Harry Church; Chapter 8: Abracadabra, Jump! Jump! Geoff Taylor; Chapter 9: Fire Over Frankfurt; Chapter 10: 'This Is London'; Chapter 11: Press on Regardless Keith Parry.;The Lancasters looked like enormous deadly black birds going off into the night; somehow they looked different when they came back. The planes carried from this field 117,000 pounds of high explosives and the crews flew all night to drop the load as ordered. Now the trains would not run between France and Italy for a while, not on those bombed tracks anyhow. Here are the men who did it, with mussed hair and weary faces, dirty sweaters under their flying suits, sleep-bright eyes, making humble comradely little jokes and eating their saved-up chocolate bars' - Martha Gellhorn This riveting and h.