Thomas, Edwin (ed. by David A. Thomas), — EDWIN'S LETTERS.
Cassell, London, 2001, 1st edn., 144pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., facsimiles in text, blue cloth l;ettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, pictorial montage dustwrapper, a poignant collection of letters and telegrams that give an account of the experiences in the Royal Air Force of Edwin Thomas, a wireless operator / gunner in a Halifax of 78 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command, which was lost on the night of 16th/17th April 1943 when it came down in France killing the crew of seven. He joined the RAF in November 1940 and his letters relate his training over the next two and a half years before his first successful operational sortie against St. Nazaire, only to be killed on his second, fine in a fine dustwrapper,
