Dimensions
129 x 198 x 20mm
Of every 100 operational airmen in World War Two, 9 were killed flying in England and 3 severely injured in crashes, so non operational casualties were significant in numbers, over 15,000. Operational casualties were of course chillingly grim – over 56,000 airmen died in the Second World War, over half those involved. George Culling was a nineteenyearold Lancaster navigator whose own experiences often involved battling tricky and dangerous conditions. Fascinated by the everpresent dangers for airmen even well away from combat, he has collated tales from comrades and combined them with his own to preserve some of the unexpected, inconvenient, dangerous, and often downright bizarre experiences that frequently typified daily life for airman in the Second World War.
