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Article: Hank Nelson, Chased by the sun: courageous Australians in Bomber Command in World War II.(Book Review)
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- Journal of the Australian War Memorial
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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Hank Nelson, Chased by the sun: courageous Australians in Bomber Command in World War II, ABC Books, Sydney, 2002, ix + 319 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography, index, soft cover, rrp $32.95.
Hank Nelson has written a book that will stir memory and stimulate much talk for those who served with Bomber Command in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. It is a book also that should or must be read by those who wish to know what it was like to be in their early to middle twenties, to have undergone some eighteen months of training to become part of a bomber crew with almost no expectancy of completing the requirement of thirty operational sorties. One ...