Target for Tonight: Flying Long-Range Reconnaissance And... - Braithwaite, D.A.

Target for TonightAuthor(s): D.A. Braithwaite\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Leo Cooper Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781844151592, 978-1844151592\nSynopsis\nThe author was born of a prosperous Yorkshire family and joined the Auxiliary Air Force on his eighteenth birthday in 1939. On the occasion of Chamberlain's speech to the British nation on September 3 the situation changed dramatically and from being a 'super weekend club', his squadron was assigned coastal patrol duties. In October he was posted to Peterborough to learn to fly with the regular RAF. There followed a period of convoy protection flying Blenheims and then flying with the meteorological flight based at Bircham Newington on the Norfolk coast. Here he flew a Gloster Gladiator with a flight that had the reputation of 'flying even when the birds wouldn't'. Now a Squadron Leader, Braithwaite became acquainted with the legendary de Havilland Mosquito and flew long-range weather reconn.