Failed To Return

When an aircraft fails to return, there is usually an element of mystery that shrouds its fate or that of its survivors, if any. Official records cannot supply all the answers to the many questions that are still asked of such mysteries of the air war during 1939-45. But the trail is not cold. His interest sparked off by perhaps a photograph, or by a request to discover the truth behind a well-known mystery, or by the remains of a crashed aircraft, aviation historian Roy Conyers Nesbit investigates many such incidents, following each trail to find out just what did happen. In each case, he has found hitherto undisclosed records, either in Britain or in Germany, and has traced many witnesses to the events. With all this evidence before him, he provides what surely must be the answers so far as they can now be established.
Some of the stories concern public figures. Was it really Rudolf Hess who landed in Scotland or, as others maintain, an impostor? What caused the death of Amy Johnson? Was Glenn Miller really in the aircraft that disappeared in fog on the way to Paris, and what happened to it? Other stories concern less famous people but their content is no less gripping. What was the story behind the crashed Wellington, N 2980, found in Loch Ness in 1976? What happened to Beaufort L 4463 from the author's own squadron?
Roy Conyers Nesbit is well qualified to investigate these events; he was a wartime navigator in the RAF and is an experienced researcher and author as well as an accredited agent of the Public Record Office in matters of air history.


by Roy Conyers Nesbit
Published by PSL 1988 1st edition. 192pp profusely illustrated, index, bibliography. 17x24 mint, including d/j.





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