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THE HURRICATS IBD

SILVERTAIL BOOKS
05 / 2019
9781909269866
Inglés

Sinopsis

With the Battle of Britain won, Winston Churchill and his military chiefs now faced an even more fearsome challenge in the Battle of the Atlantic.áThwarted in his plans to invade, Hitler decided instead that he would starve Britain into submission.á Operating in conjunction with U-Boats, long-range Condor aircraft attacked allied shipping far beyond the range of any land-based fighters.To counter the Luftwaffe threat, RAF and Fleet Air Arm volunteers to be catapulted fromámerchant ships in specially modified Hawker Hurricanes.á With nowhere to land it was a one-way mission.If the British fighter pilots survived combat, they had no option but to bail out or ditch in the North Atlantic and hope they would be picked up by the one of the convoy escorts.áSurvival was anything but certain ...

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