Throughout the Second World War, Suffolk airfields and the airmen of
Bomber Command made a large and vital contribution to the war effort.
Just four airfields were established in the county at the outbreak of
war in September 1939 - Mildenhall, Stradishall, Wattisham and
Honington. Later in the war, new airfields were opened at Chedburgh,
Tuddenham and Lakenheath. The losses both in men and machines, were very
high. In this excellently researched book, Graham Smith describes the
air war in Suffolk and the young airmen who flew night after night in
the cold and the dark against desperate odds. Their Commander-in-Chief,
Air Marshall Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris called them 'The bravest of the
brave', an epithet they fully deserved.