Gibson, Guy VC DSO DFC, — ENEMY COAST AHEAD - UNCENSORED - The Real Guy Gibson.

Crécy, Manchester, 2017 reprint, paperback, 288pp, 4pp coloured photo ills., half tone photo ills., facsimiles and line drawing in text, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), half tone photo pictorial wrappers, Guy Gibson's classic account of his RAF career restoring some of his more robust and less than tactful opinions and comments on personalities, tactics and the course of the war, which the censor and his original publishers had omitted. The personal experiences of the legendary bomber pilot who, at the start of WW2, was a career RAF Flying Officer with Bomber Command 83 Squadron (Whitleys) and later Flt. Lt, transferred to Fighter Command he helped develop night-fighter technique with 29 Squadron (Beaufighters) during which time he was promoted Sqn. Ldr, in 1942 returned to Bomber Command as Wing Cdr. 106 Squadron (Manchesters and then Lancasters), then forming a special squadron, 617 (Lancasters) for the Dam Buster raid, fine,