
Secret Operations Over Occupied Europe
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When the Allies opened new fronts in North Africa and Italy, Bartter's crew was seconded for some weeks to 624 Squadron flying from Blida in Algeria and Protville in Tunisia. On their return to the UK, they had the additional task of bringing back Winston Churchill's son, Randolph.
The crew's last operation would be to fly Flemming Muus, as head of SOE in Denmark, to Roskilde in Denmark. However, tragedy struck when their Halifax Mk.II, BB378, was shot down approaching its destination on the night of 10/11 December 1943.
Exemplary piloting skills from Peter Bartter brought the aircraft down in a frozen field with no injuries. Muus thankfully escaped. The crew, meanwhile, split into two groups - the officers, and the NCOs.
The officers managed to evade capture and reach Sweden. One of the officers, Ernesto Howell, went on to re-join 138 Squadron, but was sadly killed flying over the North Sea in November 1944.
The NCOs' luck gave out, and they were all captured, spending the rest of the war in the notorious Stalag IV-B. From there, one of the NCOs managed to escape just before the camp liberated by the Russians.
In this book, the crew are traced from their recruitment, to training, deployment and, for the survivors, their post-war lives. The next generation, René, son of agent Ernest Gimpel, and Nigel Atkins, son of Brian Atkins, the co-pilot, have become firm friends. Nigel Atkins traveled across Europe on a journey of discovery as he has met and interviewed many people while visiting multiple locations the crew only visited from above.
From daring flights over occupied Europe to meetings over seventy years later, the excavation of the crash site and new friendships formed, this book has it all.
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Content
- Cover
- Book Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Foreword The Bartter crew
- Chapter 1 Seven young men
- Chapter 2 Special Operations Executive and secret air bases
- Chapter 3 Turmoil in France
- Chapter 4 Events in the Mediterranean
- Chapter 5 Shot down over Denmark
- Chapter 6 On the run
- Chapter 7 The war is over for you - Stalag IV B
- Chapter 8 After the war
- Afterword
- Appendices
- Appendix I Bartter crew Special Duty flights in 1943
- Appendix II Bombing raids
- Appendix III Denmark and the blanket of radar
- Appendix IV Responsibilities of PoW card
- Appendix V The metal detection search for BB378,72 years after the crash landing
- Appendix VI Biographies
- Appendix VII Glossary
- Appendix VIII Ranks in the Royal Air Forcementioned in the book
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Endnotes
- Index
- Backcover
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