THE INVISIBLE CAMPAIGN: Bomber Command Gardening Operations 1940-1945

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Details how RAF Bomber Command's aerial minelaying operations successfully disrupted Axis shipping 1940-1945. Based on Air Ministry and Admiralty archival material, together with squadron records, veteran accounts, and logbooks as well as contemporary publications and press releases, provides a detailed account of Bomber Command's minelaying operations and their effects. Looks at the aims of the campaign and how it was implemented, together with the measure of its success and how it compared against the mining operations implemented by the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine.