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Flights into the Night, Reminiscences of a World War II RAF Wellington pilot
L Anthony Leicester
As a young RAF pilot Anthony Leicester’s wartime service took him to Canada, the Middle East, India and Burma as well as Europe.
He survived a midair collision in Canada, then, at nineteen, as the Captain of a Wellington II, lost an engine over the Atlas mountains during the African campaign and was faced with the agonising choice of crash landing, bailing out or finding a safe airfield hundreds of miles away in the Sahara Desert.
An illuminating insight into the experiences and emotions of wartime RAF service.
Paperback, 248pp
