Blenheim Boy

{detailed description}In 1934 newspaper owner, Viscount Rothermere, who survived his brother, Viscount Northcliffe, by some twenty years, was alarmed at the speed with which the Germans were building modern passenger aircraft that could easily be converted into bombers. He asked the main British aircraft manufacturers why Britain was not doing the same. He was told that finance and compliance with Air Ministry stipulations were the main problems. So he instructed the Bristol Aeroplane Company, on a quotation of £18,500, to build him a passenger aircraft that would be "the best in the world". Within a year it was delivered. He immediately donated it to a delighted RAF. It was the prototype of the Blenheim bomber—faster than most fighters then in service.
In the early days of the war, Blenheims were sent over the Channel on solo raids, and usually in daylight. The author, at the outset a humble AC1, was a crew member whose duty it was to fend off any attacking fighters from his turret in the top of the fuselage. He did this in the knowledge that the range of his gun was inadequate for the task; and that it was he who was most likely to be killed. So the pilots inevitably tried to stay out of sight in cloud. But invariably the cloud rolled back a few miles north of the French coast, leaving a beautiful, dangerous blue sky. . . .
{Author / Publisher / Date}by Richard Passmore
Published by Thomas Harmsworth 1981 1st edition. 254pp illustrated. 14x22
{condition}fine, including d/j.
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