Return Flights in War & Peace / Pen & Sword Aviation (ePub)

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The Flying Memoirs of Squadron Leader John Rowland (Sprache: Englisch)

Autor: John Rowland

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John Rowland made his first flight with the RAF Volunteer Reserve on 1 October 1938 from Redhill in a DH60 Moth. He won a Prize Cadetship to the RAF College Cranwell and then posted to the School of Army Cooperation. He volunteered for 613 Squadron which had been formed shortly before the war started. It was still not fully equipped with Lysanders and half of its planes were still elderly Hectors. On 25 May 1940 came the news that six Hectors were to be sent off on a ground strafing operation to relieve the pressure on the garrison of Calais which was blocking the Germans from advancing up the coast towards Dunkirk and encircled by German troops Three Hectors flew on each side of Calais and created as much of a diversion as they could by dropping bombs and firing their guns at anything they could see. This was the only occasions on which such obsolete aircraft was used in Europe in WW2.He converted to heavy bombers and was posted to 12 Squadron at Wickenby flying Halifaxs in June 1943. On 3 July he made his first trip to Cologne, Germany. After he had flown 28 operations he was promoted to Squadron leader as a flight Commander at 1656 HCU at Lindholme. He was next posted to 625 Squadron as a flight Commander on 12 May 1944. It was a two flight Lancaster Squadron. The last of his 48 bomber operations was to Calais, the town to which he made his first operational flight in the Hector in 1940.After the war John flew as an airline pilot with BOAC.

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Squadron Leader John Rowland entered the RAF before the outbreak of the Second World War, and was at Cranwell when war broke out. Rowland had quite a varied wartime career. He began in an Army Co-Operation Squadron, flying Hectors and Lysanders (even flying a Hector on a bombing raid in 1940!). After a period as an instructor he was moved to Bomber Command, where he served as a Lancaster pilot. Having survived the war he flew for BOAC, and is now living in retirement.

One aspect of Rowland's memoirs did surprise me - one tends to think of Lancaster bombers either being lost entirely or returning intact, but although Rowland and his aircraft survived each sortie, he did lose several crew members killed and wounded, gunners being the most vulnerable.

Rowland's time with Bomber Command came in the second half of the war, and his experiences come across as rather more varied than those memoirs set earlier in the war. The night bombing campaign over Germany was still important, but targets in France, in support of the Normandy campaign, part of the anti V-1 campaign and attacks on wider targets took up a great deal of his time. He also took part in the daylight raids that were resumed as the Allies won control of the air over Germany towards the end of the war. After the war he worked for BOAC, so we also get a picture of the slow revival of civil flying after the war.

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Autor: John Rowland
2020, 256 Seiten, Englisch
Verlag: PEN & SWORD BOOKS
ISBN-10: 1844682307
ISBN-13: 9781844682300
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.01.2020

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