Only Birds and Fools: Flight Engineer, Avro Lancaster, World War II

This autobiography captures the day-to-day life of crew members of the Avro Lancaster bombers during World War II. The author of this work is one of the many unsung heroes of RAF Bomber Command, who played out his part of the war tending the engines and flight systems of the various aircraft in which he flew and survived through 54 operations. It describes missions to the Ruhr Valley, and see tactics employed by crews of an elite Pathfinder Squadron as they contribute to Germany's downfall in the last years of the war.