Night Intruder: A Personal Account of the Radar War Between the RAF and Luftwaffe Night-Fighter Forces (Memoirs of World War Two in the Air Book 1) by Jeremy Howard-Williams
English | August 27, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0C6MGBX72 | 200 pages | EPUB | 1.83 Mb
English | August 27, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0C6MGBX72 | 200 pages | EPUB | 1.83 Mb
An engrossing memoir of one RAF fighter pilot’s battle against the Luftwaffe in the dead of night.
Ideal for fans of Roderick Chisholm, E. C. R. Baker and Brian Lane.
After a tour of operations under the guidance of night-fighter ace, John ‘Cat’s Eyes’ Cunningham, Jeremy Howard-Williams was made flight commander of Fighter Command’s night experimental unit. This elite force was at the forefront of aerial night-fighting, attacking German airfields with newly developed radar equipment and defending Allied airspace by utilising a wide variety of aircraft from the Mosquito and Tempest to the Black Widow and Messerschmidt 410.
Howard-Williams provides fascinating insight into his life as a night-fighter, what it was like to fly these planes and how they navigated in pitch darkness. We are also given an insight into the ground organisation, mess parties, the author’s feelings about the war, his allies and his special relationship with his navigators.