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Night Flyer/Mosquito Pathfinder: Night Operations in World War II
By Lewis Brandon, Albert Smith and Ian Smith
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- Two gripping memoirs by British night-fighter crewmen
- Action-adventure tales of aerial combat aboard Beaufighter and Mosquito aircraft
- Accounts of Pathfinders who flew ahead of bomber formations and marked targets deep inside German territory
- How new technologies like airborne radar, one of World War II's best-kept secrets, were used
- How night-fighters helped save British cities from destruction
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