An arm injury has temporarily reduced my mobility ( ie I'm spending a lot of time sitting on my **** !
) the upside of which is that I've been spending some serious non-guilty reading time.
Currently ploughing through some very interesting 8th AF books and added - from Bookfinder - the '8th AF Album' to my two volumes of '8th AF News'.
A very interesting memoir/partial Group history is Elwyn Warfle's
One Lucky Bastard ( 447th BG - Rattlesden again ! ) which is superior to many memoirs - he did a lot of research for this book. It's getting hard to find, though - I got E Anglia Books' last one.
Now I'm into Brian D O'Neill's
'Half A Wing, Three Engines And A Prayer' ( 303rd BG ) which is different in style, but equally interesting. And Amazon are doing a good deal on it just now....
It's great that so many 8th AF veterans have felt moved to set down their experiences in recent years. I never tire of reading them and my admiration for what they experienced never wavers - if anything, it increases.....