Research Catalog

Title

Shot down and on the run : the RAF and Commonwealth aircrews who got home from behind enemy lines, 1940-1945 / Graham Pitchfork ; foreword by Lewis Hodges.

Author

Pitchfork, Graham

Publication

Kew, Surrey : National Archives, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Hodges, Lewis.
• National Archives (Great Britain)

Description

xvi, 288 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book tells some of the epic stories of RAF and Commonwealth aircrews who got out from behind enemy lines, across all theatres of the Second World War. They include the Halifax pilot shot down in northern Germany who walked and cycled over 1,000 miles to arrive safely in Barcelona two months later; the Baltimore navigator brought down in Italy who had to hide in a bush for three days before escaping over mountains to reach friendly lines; the Wellington crew rescued after a 28-day 400-mile trek through the African desert; the Beaufighter crew who survived for a month behind Japanese lines; and others picked up by Royal Navy Motor Gunboats from under the noses of enemy troops."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

RAF and Commonwealth aircrews who got home from behind enemy lines, 1940-1945

Subject

• Great Britain. Ml9
• 1900-1999
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives
• Airplane crash survival
• Flight crews > Great Britain > Personal narratives
• Flight crews > Commonwealth countries > Personal narratives
• World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• Personal narratives

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-282) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1903365538

OCLC

• 52565302
• SCSB-11063861

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library