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A Bucket of Sunshine

Life on a Cold War Canberra Squadron

Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: The History Press Ltd, Stroud, United Kingdom
Published: 1st May 2012
Dimensions: w 153mm h 227mm d 19mm
Weight: 390g
ISBN-10: 0752470213
ISBN-13: 9780752470214
Barcode No: 9780752470214
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A Bucket of Sunshine - a term coined by RAF aircrew for the nuclear bomb that their aircraft would be armed with - is a first-hand insight into life in the mid-1960s on a RAF Canberra nuclear-armed squadron in West Germany, on the frontline in the Cold War. The English-Electric Canberra was a first-generation jet-powered light bomber manufactured in large numbers in the 1950s. The Canberra B(I)8, low-level interdictor version was used by RAF Germany squadrons at the height of the Cold War. Mike Brooke describes not only the technical aspect of the aircraft and its nuclear and conventional roles and weapons, but also the low-level flying that went with the job of being ready to go to war at less than three minutes' notice. Brooke tells his story warts and all, with many amusing overtones, in what was an extremely serious business when the world was standing on the brink of nuclear conflict.

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