Operation Diver : Guns, V1 Flying Bombs And Landscapes Of Defence, 1944-45

Operation Diver' is the story of a battle: its action, people, landscapes, and remains. The battle was Anti-Aircraft Command's attempt to defeat the V1 flying-bomb, the first of Nazi Germany's 'retribution' weapons, whose attacks dominated the home front in the final year of the Second World War. Beginning in the week of D-Day, the flying bomb battle lasted for nine months. In that time the men and women of AA Command became a massed, mobile army, shifting a vast carpet of guns to meet the V1's changing lines of attack. Beginning in Kent and Sussex, their journey took in the Thames Estuary, East Anglia and eventually the Yorkshire coast. Along with the RAF's fighter aircraft and the larger air defence system, their mission was to prevent a single flying bomb from reaching London, or any other British city. The battle was won; but not before many technical and human obstacles were overcome.

• | Author: Colin Dobinson
• | Publisher: Historic England In Association With Liverpool University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 31, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 592 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1848024754
• | ISBN-13: 9781848024755