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Nesbit - The Strike Wings - Special Anti-shipping Squadrons 1942-1945.

1 pdf, 70 MB.

RAF strike wing Beaufighter and Mosquito crews flew some of the hairiest attacks of the war against German shipping in the North Sea. Their previously unheralded exploits were first told in this extremely well-written book by Roy Conyers Nesbit, himself a Beaufort veteran. 

Beginning in late 1942 Coastal Command Beaufighters from the North Coates Wing began striking German convoys. Sweeping across the North Sea at low level the RAF crews pitted their aircraft armed with cannons, machine guns, bombs and torpedoes against convoys defended by flak ships armed with machine guns and 20mm, 40mm, 88mm and 105mm cannons and often protected by Luftwaffe FW 190s and Me 109s.
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