Letters from a Lancaster Gunner
Author:   Joseph Thompson ,  Helen Thompson
Publisher:   Fonthill Media Ltd
ISBN:  

9781781556986


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   21 March 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Letters from a Lancaster Gunner


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Flight Lieutenant Joseph Thompson, aka 'Mac', left his mother's small Birmingham home in December 1943 at the age of 18 to join the wartime RAF. This book follows his journey through the hardship and adventure of basic & gunnery training, a love affair with a girl from Liverpool, crew friendships, losses and disasters, over 20 Lancaster bombing raids, a virgin mission which ends in a 'ditching' in the North Sea, and a post-war stint in Singapore. Joe's original letters and his mother's replies are the narrators of this story, which begins and ends with the events surrounding their re-discovery some 65 years after they were written. The wartime experiences of the family Joe left behind, also unfold. A mother, widowed in 1941, struggling to cope physically, financially and emotionally with four children during wartime, while working full time in a factory. There is much love, detail and hardship in these letters, which ultimately end with heart-break that could not have been foreseen.

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Author:   Joseph Thompson ,  Helen Thompson
Publisher:   Fonthill Media Ltd
Imprint:   Fonthill Media Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781781556986


ISBN 10:   1781556989
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   21 March 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Prologue; 1 Growing Up Fast; 2 Bedding In; 3 The One-Eyed Dump; 4 Peeling Potatoes; 5 Airborne; 6 `Crewing Up'; 7 The `Nibs'; 8 A Funeral and an Engagement; 9 Virgin Ops; 10 A Ditching; 11 A Marriage, a Death, and a Lot of Near Misses; 12 Joyce is Hospitalised; 13 The Beginning of the End; 14 Relationship Troubles; 15 A Summer of Change; 16 Limbo; 17 A Posting Overseas; 18 The Final Throes; Epilogue.

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"'Well worth the time invested and I heartily recommend the book to anyone looking to get a closer glimpse into night bombing and the effects it had on those carrying out operations against a Germany bound on world domination.""-- ""IPMS/USA"""


'Well worth the time invested and I heartily recommend the book to anyone looking to get a closer glimpse into night bombing and the effects it had on those carrying out operations against a Germany bound on world domination. -- IPMS/USA


Author Information

Helen Thompson is the 50-year-old niece of the story's hero, Joseph Thompson, although they never actually met. Born in Birmingham, Helen now lives in North Yorkshire with her large family, where she works as a photographer. This book is a labour of love, written on behalf of her father, as a tribute to her uncle, and captures the stories of and behind a series of letters written 70+ years earlier, which changed her life.

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