Bomber Command
“Among them I must mention Group-Captain E. B. Haslam, until 1978 head of the Air Historical Branch of the Ministry of Defence, and his colleague Mr Humphrey Wynn; S/Ldr ‘Jacko’ Jackson and the RAF’s Battle of Britain Flight, who flew me in one of the few remaining airworthy Lancaster bombers, and enabled me to get the feel of the aircraft from every turret and crew position; Freddy Lambert of the Public Record Office, who was tireless in answering my endless demands; Dr John Tanner and his staf...f at the RAF Museum, who enabled me to explore the Wellington and the Mosquito.The Daily Telegraph, the Pathfinder Association journal The Marker, the Air Gunners’ Association journal Turret, the Australian Pathfinders’ Marker, the RAF Association’s Air Mail, the Goldfish Club newsletter and the RAF POW Association newsletter Kriegie published the appeals which enabled me to contact more than three hundred survivors of Bomber Command, over a hundred from the squadrons which I had chosen for special study.Mrs Joan Hornsey and her daughter Mrs Carol Wain allowed me to read and to quote extensively from the late Denis Hornsey’s remarkable unpublished manuscript on his service in Bomber Command, Here Today, Bomb Tomorrow.This book would never have been written without the inspiration of my publisher James Wade in New York, and the support of my editor at Michael Joseph in London, Alan Samson.MoreLess
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