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Night Fighter Ace
Author | : Tony Spooner |
Publisher | : History Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fighter pilots |
ISBN | : 9780750934732 |
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Bob Branham, the subject of this biography, was the most highly decorated RAF fighter pilot of World War II, being awarded three DSOs and three DFCs. From 1940 through to 1944, flying Beaufighters and then Mosquitoes, he became one of the highest scoring fighter aces with 22 night victories to his credit, before he was shot down shortly after D-Day. He spent the rest of the war as a POW. In his first posting, to No 29 Squadron, Bob served alongside the famous "dam-buster" bomber pilot Guy Gibson for a year or more (posted to a fighter squadron to advise on tactics). Bob contributed in a significant way to the development of nightfighting tactics and latterly to the successful introduction of offensive intruder operations into Germany when he was appointed to command the No 141 Squadron. As the squadron's CO, he was promoted to Wing Commander at the age of 23, at the time RAF's youngest. Tony Spooner was given unrestricted access, both by Bob's personal armourer and by his widow, to complete and detailed information covering every one of his successful operational sorties.
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