633 Squadron Vesuvius Author:Frederick E. Smith This was the mission on which the success of Operation Overlord--the invasion of Europe--depended. The chosen squadron was No. 633 whose pilots flew with skill and daring. Their target was a fjord in Norway, where the Germans were known to be developing something so secret, that not even the crews of the Mosquitoes which were to fly on the mis... more »sion could be told about it. They knew it was a dangerous mission, but they could not know just how dangerous it would turn out to be.
1978 reprint of the Corgi edition published in 1964.« less