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Torpedo Attack by Richard Townsend Bickers is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The year is 1939 and Britain is a war with an enemy as deadly as she has ever faced.Flying Officer Alden is desperate to have a crack at the Nazis.But five years earlier, he had been invalided out of the service after a bad prang (crash) injured him.Now, desperately short of qualified pilots, the RAF needs him back.After the necessarily minor re training he is posted to an RAF Coastal Command Beaufort squadron on the day war is declared in September.Orders arrive a few hours later; 'All Torpedo Bomber Squadrons load up live weapons and commence active patrols. Attack all enemy warships on sight as per war plan'.The dirty secret in the RAF is that only one in five Airmen were expected to survive their first tour of duty."If the Luftwaffe didn't get you, the weather would''.Alden knows the odds are stacked against him already with his injuries from before the war. Without the flying experience and seniority to match his contemporaries from the RAF College at Cranwell, he is desperate to catch up with them and restore his own badly stalled career - even it means taking suicidal risks to do so.As he continues to survive his promotion to flight then squadron commander comes through, but

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Author

Richard Townsend Bickers

Publisher

Endeavour Press Ltd.

Published

2013

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, War & Military Fiction

Rating

3.7 / 5 (164 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14