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Old 4th January 2017, 14:18
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Gardening by Moonlight

Me and David are proud to present you our research in British, Australian,South African, German,Hungarian and Slovak archives, ‘Gardening by Moonlight’ is about one of the least known and most effective of the Royal Air Force's bombing campaigns of the Second World War. Operating from a group of bases around Foggia, in Central Italy, the RAF's 205 Group mined the River Danube intensively between April and October 1944, radically curtailing the movement of Axis river shipping and at times halting it altogether. The Wellington and Liberator crews had to sow their mines (hence the slang term 'gardening') at low level on moonlit nights, running the gauntlet of night fighters, flak and balloon barrages. Their courage,skill and sacrifice are celebrated in what is an important account of a virtually unknown aspect of the war in the air.

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Re: Gardening by Moonlight

Congrats to both you!
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Interesting, could you put it on amazon or abebooks ?
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should be on amazon soon...
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Re: Gardening by Moonlight

Hello!

Sounds interesting! Might have to purchase the book.

Were you able to compare the RAF records against the German Naval Diaries? IIRC you asked something liike that years ago and I was not really able to help then. Lack of time as always.


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Old 5th January 2017, 06:14
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should be on amazon soon...
Excellent ! Please let us know when it is available on amazon
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Old 5th January 2017, 08:56
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Were you able to compare the RAF records against the German Naval Diaries?
I managed to get the Kriegstagebuch der Seekriegsleitung for few months and extracted few information about the topic from there crosssreferring it to other sources. As well as the MSGr1 verlusten were under revision, at least what was know for the particullar Staffel involved.

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Re: Gardening by Moonlight

According to worldwide reports, the book is arriving in two weeks from order date via Lulu.com anywhere, so you may order there...
Amazon yet did not took it into its portfolio...
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I just ordered it at Lulu. I am really looking forward to reading it.
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Hello Peter,
You raised my interest in this subject a few years ago and I have ordered a copy from LuLu. I am looking forward to it.

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