From Coastal Command to Captivity
The Memoir of a Second World War Airman
Published on 13. February 2003
165 pages
978-1-84468-222-5 (ISBN)
Description
Thanks to the perseverance and editorial effort of his son Allan, Jim Hunter's splendid war memoirs of flying and captivity can now be enjoyed by a wider audience. In the first part there is the account of his flying career in RAF Coastal Command, culminating in an extraordinarily brave attack by him and his Beaufighter on the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst. Shot down, he became a POW and the second half tells of his experiences in Stalag Luft 3.All this and more make From Coastal Command to Captivity a superb read and a late, but great, addition to the bibliography of POW life during the Second World War.
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Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Countdown in Cornwall
- Chapter 2: Outward Bound
- Appendix 3: The Attack
- Chapter 4: Into the Drink
- Chapter 5: Guests of the Germans
- DULAG LUFT
- OFLAG XC - Lübeck
- OFLAG VI B - Warburg
- OFLAG XXI B - Schubin, Poland
- STALAG LUFT III - Sagan
- Chapter 6: On the Move
- Chapter 7: Home
- Appendix 1: Brief biographies of some of the author's fellow prisoners
- LOU BARRY
- AIDAN CRAWLEY
- PETER FANSHAWE
- RICHARD KELLETT
- OLIVER PHILPOT
- Appendix 2: Prison Camp Life
- Chapter 3: The Tunnel at Oflag XXIB, Schubin
- Appendix 4: The Casualty Rate
- Bibliography
- Index
