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Spitfire Dive Bombers Versus the V2 1st Edition by Bill Simpson ISBN 1844155714 9781844155712

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Author(s): Bill Simpson
ISBN(s): 9781844155712, 1844155714
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 109.07 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
SKU: EB-46719096 Category: Tag:

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ISBN 10: 1844155714

ISBN 13: 9781844155712 

Author: Bill Simpson 

This WWII military history vividly recounts the Royal Air Force campaign to counter Germany’s V2 rocket attacks.

On September 8th, 1944, the first V2 rockets aimed at southern England exploded in west London. They had been launched from a wooded street corner in Den Haag in the Netherlands. Air Marshal Roderic Hill of Fighter Command ordered a swift response to counter the threat. Six squadrons of Spitfires were sent to find and dive-bomb the mobile V2 launch sites scattered throughout the Dutch countryside.

The missiles were well camouflaged and often positioned adjacent to dwellings occupied by civilians. The RAF was under orders to cause minimum damage to Dutch property and life, therefore precision bombing became a necessity.

This complete account of the campaign includes discussions of the strategy and tactics employed and the equipment used. It also considers the effects on Dutch civilians. Bill Simpson draws on the experiences of sixteen Allied pilots, ground crew and the Dutch who were at the receiving-end of the attacks.

Table of contents:

  1. Acknowledgements

  2. Foreword

  3. Introduction

  4. The Rockets Uncovered

  5. A Shaky Start

  6. Into the Groove

  7. Shortening Days

  8. A Hard Winter

  9. Liquid Oxygen

  10. The Bombing of Bezuidenhout

  11. ‘VII Kaput

  12. Endings…and Beginnings

  13. Postscript

  14. Roll of Honour

  15. Target Photograph – The Hague

  16. Squadron Strengths, 31 December 1944

  17. Squadron Strengths, 31 March 1945

  18. Map

  19. Bibliography

  20. Index

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