Written by respected author and Buccaneer veteran Graham Pitchfork, this latest work offers a further series of recollections covering the use of the famous British bombers. Missions ranged from the cold of heaving carrier decks to the blazing sun of the Angolan desert. Yet again, the author presents a superbly curated variety or fascinating accounts, some amusing and some harrowing. Many of the 26 chapters cover a particular aspect of the service or development of the Buccaneer or its weapons systems, such as the laser-guided bomb. The accounts transport the reader to sitting on the catapult at sea on a carrier, on exercise in the Mediterranean or in a hardened shelter during the Cold War. Perhaps the most interesting and least known stories concern the Buccaneer's use by the South Africans in Angola and the story of how one crew held off a Cuban/Angolan armoured column, despite having run out of ammunition. It is as vivid as it is remarkable.
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