RAF Special Duties

During the Second World War, the RAF employed Special Duties pilots and aircrew on operations across a wide range of extraordinary and daredevil missions. In many instances, specially selected and trained crews flew specific sorties, seeking out small targets of utmost importance to the war effort. A number of these operations were filmed by cameramen and RAF Special Duties: Unique Sorties of the Second World War enables their stories to be told for the first time.

The various exploits in this exceptionally well-researched and gripping book are supported, in many instances, by 'Flying Logbooks' and other materials stemming directly from the pilots themselves. These men were true originals - undertaking hugely dangerous missions against the odds, and often operating as individual aircraft in completely unknown conditions.Accounts in the book include:

• Cameramen flying on special raids to film precise low level Mosquito sorties, including on the Gestapo HQ in Copenhagen.
• A Mosquito pilot flying a single aircraft into Germany to cause disruption by setting off air raid sirens
• A Stirling pilot flying with radar-jamming equipment to disguise the D-Day invasion
• Mosquito pilots attacking targets identified by British SAS units in France
• Experience as a wireless operator flying in Churchill's personal aircraft
• Dropping supplies over Burma

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