A photo was posted on the Bottisham museum web page https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151795307386787&set=gm.701746129856560&type=1&theater showing the groundcrew with “their” aircraft and pilot.
We always seem to hear from the pilot or about the pilot but the ground crew must have suffered from the loss of their plane and pilot,bonds made and broken.
Are there any books from the ground crews point of view or online reading from their perspective.
Cheers 🙂
By: Richard W. - 6th January 2014 at 16:30
One of the best things about the old Ian Allen Publishing At War series is that each title includes first-person accounts from the ground crews that serviced each aircraft in the series.
By: trumper - 5th January 2014 at 21:05
🙂 Thanks i will have a good look.
I wondered if there was anything from maybe the BEF ,or BoB and the offensive crews in bomber command and the usaaf fighter groups.
By: Mike J - 5th January 2014 at 17:51
From a few days ago
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?128118-Autobiographies-of-aircraft-mechanics
By: trumper - 5th January 2014 at 17:45
Cheers 🙂 They sound from the title more of a technical type book , http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0906393213/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used
I will have a rummage around our local libraries inventory 🙂
By: wieesso - 5th January 2014 at 17:19
Haven’t read them, have both found with bookfinder dot com:
Fred Adkin “From the Ground Up. A History of R.A.F. Ground Crew”
Fred Adkin “Through the Hangar Doors RAF Ground Crew Since 1945”
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January 5, 2014 at 4:29 pm