PATRICK BISHOP
Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys: Saving Britain 1940–1945
HarperPress
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Fighter Boys: First published in Great Britain by HarperPress in 2003
Copyright © Patrick Bishop 2003 Portrait © Max Arthur 2004
Bomber Boys: First published in Great Britain by HarperPress in 2007
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Cover photograph courtesy of the trustees at The Imperial War Museum — CH7745
Maps of Cologne and Berlin © Copyright Royal Geographical Society
Maps of Bomber Command Stations, Targets in Europe, Germany, and the Ruhr Valley by John Gilkes
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Contents
Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940
Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945
Fighter Boys
Saving Britain 1940
Patrick Bishop
To Kelly and Bill
Contents
3 ‘Free of Boundaries, Free of Gravity, Free of Ties’