Valiant Boys - True Tales from the Operators of the UK's First Four-Jet Bomber Blackman TonyPaperback / softback
Valiant Boys - True Tales from the Operators of the UK's First Four-Jet Bomber Blackman TonyPaperback / softback Following on from the success of Victor Boys and Vulcan Boys, Tony Blackman, in…
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Valiant Boys - True Tales from the Operators of the UK's First Four-Jet Bomber Blackman TonyPaperback / softback
Following on from the success of Victor Boys and Vulcan Boys, Tony Blackman, in collaboration with Anthony Wright, brings you Valiant Boys to complete the V Force set. The book tells the story from the aircraft's birth taking off from Vickers' tiny airfield at Brooklands to its premature death from fatigue. This is a fascinating collection of personal accounts of operating Britain's first V bomber by aircrew and ground crew.
We are reminded of how the Valiant provided the UK's first nuclear deterrent by always having some armed aircraft on stand-by twenty-four hours a day, supported by their air and ground crews, ready to be flown at a There are tales of testing atom bombs in the Australian desert, dropping hydrogen bombs in the middle of the Pacific and, as a complete contrast, attacking airfields with conventional bombs in Egypt during the very brief and abortive Suez campaign.