Someone will come for you
A Story of the Carpetbaggers
David H, Kibble-White

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Belgium, 1944 - an occupied country. On 30 May Lieutenant Ernest Fitzpatrick and his crew took off from their base in Harrington, Northamptonshire in their specially adapted B-24 Liberator on a special mission to drop supplies to the Belgian Underground. 

Also on 30 May Leutnant Karl Kern, Luftwaffe pilot, took off in his Ju88 from the small village of Cerfontaine, south-west of Brussels.

In the skies over Belgium the Ju88 put a stream of bullets into the B-24. The Fitzpatrick crew baled out and within a short time the Belgian Armee Secrete had located them all and moved them to safety. Months of hiding and evading capture followed. Some of the crew were betrayed, interrogated and imprisoned. Others were liberated by Allied forces.

David Kibble-White’s new book weaves three stories together: Those of the Fitzpatrick crew - the training, the special missions, the long and tortuous flight to freedom; Rene Londoz of the Armee Secrete and the men and women of the Resistance who risked their lives to win back their country, and Karl Kern, Luftwaffe pilot.

The book also contains many personal reminiscences of the people involved and with over 70 pictures and illustrations this is a fascinating ‘behind the scenes’ account of a dark period in the Second World War

224pp, hardback, jacketed and illustrated £16.95 REDUCED TO  £10.00 Order