Trial By Fire by Richard Townsend Bickers
1939 and Roger Hallowes, an RAF sergeant pilot returns to the hangars with his comrades from B Squadron to see who else had returned from the latest attack.
The arithmetic Roger did to calculate his chances of surviving another half-dozen operations gave him no comfort.
Endeavour Press reprint, originally published as 'The Gifts of Jove'.
Richard Townsend Bickers volunteered for the RAF on the outbreak of the second world war and served, with a Permanent Commission, for eighteen years. He wrote a range of military fiction and non-fiction books, including `Torpedo Attack', `My Enemy Came Nigh', `Bombing Run' and `Summer of No Surrender'.
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