Shot Down and on the Run

True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews of WWII

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Description

First hand accounts of adventure and bravery from RAF pilots shot down and forced to flee enemy forces.

Thousands of airmen shot down over enemy soil between 1940 and 1945 miraculously escaped capture. This compelling narrative reveals their stories, based on first-hand interviews, photographs and official documents, featuring heroes from Britain, Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries.

These men knew extreme adversity: hunger, thirst, injury, isolation and the constant fear of capture. They also knew great kindness from the local people who risked everything to help them. Their journeys to safety – often across savage terrain – tested human endurance and ingenuity to the very limit.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Abbreviations

Part One: The Escape and Evasion Organization
1 Evasion
2 The MI 9 Organization
3 Preventive Training
4 Escape Aids

Part Two: North-West Europe
5 Introduction
6 France and Belgium
7 Holland
8 Scandinavia

Part Three: The Middle East and Mediterranean
9 Introduction
10 The Western Desert
11 Greece
12 Italy
13 Poland

Part Four: The Far East
14 Introduction
15 Environment and Training
16 Burma
17 South-East Asia
Epilogue

Appendix
Bibliography
Author's Acknowledgements
Index

Product details

Published Jul 27 2017
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 272
ISBN 9781472827203
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations More than 30 black and white photographs
Series General Military
Short code GNM
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Graham Pitchfork

Graham Pitchfork MBE served in the RAF for 36 year…

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