Beaufighters in the Night/Eisel

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I can comment on it, but as I wrote it, I'm not sure how objective I would be.....


It's the story of, mainly, one of the four US Beau squadrons from formation in Florida, training in the US and England, including transition from the P-70 to the Beau with the many difficulties associated with that.

Then on to their combat debut in North Africa, Corsica, and into southern France and Germany. Their biggest claim to fame was the night, bad weather, low-level downing of a Ju-290 making a run from Stuttgart to Barcelona carrying party officials and, probably, looted valuables for the post-war.

It describes in detail the operational and maintenance headaches arising from operating a British aircraft in the US supply chain - of which their wasn't one. The squadron had to beg, borrow, and steal the parts and supplies needed to fly.

Some good, unpublished photos and combat reports make it a pretty good (there's that bias again!) read.