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Beaufighter Boys

True Tales from Those Who Flew Bristol’s Mighty Twin

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Beaufighter Boys

By: Graham Pitchfork, ACM Sir David Cousins KCB AFC RAF [RTD] - foreword
Narrated by: Shawn Compton
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Researched many years ago by the author for a project which did not come to fruition, Beaufighter air and ground crew gave freely of their stories which ranged from complete memoirs to brief anecdotes.

Graham Pitchfork has built on these reminiscences to trace the roles of Beaufighter squadrons spread across all the theaters of World War Two operations. From home bases, through north-west Europe, North Africa, Malta, and the Mediterranean to the far Far East and south-west Pacific, the Beaufighter served far and wide as did the crews of the RAF, RAAF, SAAF, and New Zealand and Canadian squadrons. All are covered in this quite unique book to be savored by all those interested in the war in the air from 1939-1945.

©2019 Graham Pitchfork (P)2019 Tantor Air Forces Armed Forces Engineering Military Military & War Aviation War
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As above, it made for absorbing listening and added to my knowledge of the aeroplane’s history

Sober and factual

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Not a bad listen, but not a great one either. The constant mispronunciation of British towns was particularly grating

Interesting stories interspersed with some tedious narrative

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The American accent of the narration is off putting when reading the first person accounts of the crews , all of whom were from the British Commonwealth .
There were numerous glaring examples of mispronunciation giving the impression that the narrator was not familiar with his topic .

Great story , performance , boot so much

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While the book itself was good; interesting and informative, the narrator was woeful, clearly without any knowledge or understanding of any aspect of the subject matter whatsoever, military, historical or geographical. Being an American only made it worse. Terrible.

A Good Book, ruined by terrible Narrator.

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A fascinating set of collected histories of the Beaufighter during and after WWII, in all theatres. Unfortunately, somewhat let down by some particularly jarring mispronunciation of some words - while I understand that many Australian place names are difficult for non-natives, every time "Junkers" type planes were said with a hard "J" was particularly jarring!

Mostly good

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