Drop in the Ocean
Dramatic Accounts of Aircrew Saved from the Sea
Published on 5. January 1996
176 pages
978-1-78383-448-8 (ISBN)
Description
In the summer of 1942 a Wellington bomber, operating with 115 Squadron from Marham in Norfolk was forced to ditch in the North Sea returning from a raid on Hamburg. Two members of the crew, who were picked up by the Luftwaffe, have written this book. '
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- 1. The Charles Harrison Story: A Wet Whitley
- 2. The Charles Harrison Story: First Dip for a Halifax
- 3. Paddling in the Channel: 'Tiffies' to the Rescue
- 4. Paddling in the Channel: Bert Fitchett's Version
- 5. A Yank Meets his Saviours
- 6. . And the Engines Fell Out
- 7. All in Vain
- 8. Such Language!
- 9. Sink that Lancaster
- 10. In a Rubber Ring
- 11. Flight Engineer/Organist
- 12. From Montreal into the Med.
- 13. Where Shall We Go Next?
- 14. Don't Go Out That Way
- 15. Jobs for the Grimsby Boys
- 16. The Lease-Lend Launch
- 17. What Gremlin?
- 18. Home is a High-Speed Launch
- 19. Gardening was no Picnic
- 20. Here's your Trousers, George
- 21. Can't Drown, Can't Burn
- 22. When the Bladder was Useful
- 23. Two Lancs. too Close
- 24. Lucky Old Stan
- 25. The Girl who did a Bleriot
- 26. 'Sheilas!' - And Then There Were None
- 27. Getting aboard the MTB was the Worst
- 28. Another Rescue by Fritz
- 29. A Kiwi Robinson Crusoe
- 30. Back Wet from Nümberg
- 31. Even a Walrus can't Swim
- 32. It was Nice Floating Down
- 33. Pass the Port
- 34. Chit-Chat in the Caribbean
- 35. Floating Kiwis
- 36. A Nasty Little Buoy
- 37. Birth of the Rescue Craft
- 38. Mind those Mines
- 39. Compassion
- 40. Here Comes the Navy!
- 4l. No Substitute for a Honeymoon
- 42. What Else Can Happen?
- Appendix 1: Reunion of Rescued and Rescuers
- Appendix 2: The Goldfish Club
- Index
