Description
The Bristol Beaufighter played a hugely important role in attacking enemy shipping in the North Sea and disrupting the supply of vital raw materials destined for Germany.
Coastal Command aircraft of 236 and 254 Squadrons based at North Coates, Lincolnshire, were flown by remarkable young airmen — among them Flt Lt Peter Sutehall, from Banstead in Surrey.
Meticulously researched, this book tells the gripping story of the pilot and the aircraft. It describes in detail the development of the Beaufighter and the North Coates Strike Wing, and follows Peter Sutehall’s career from a young headstrong Scout to his role in a daring low-level attack on enemy shipping in the occupied Dutch port of Den Helder on
17 January 1945.
Peter Sutehall and his navigator, Ken Holvey, were shot down and failed to return.
The book includes interviews with airmen who took part in the raid as well as accounts of two who were captured and one who, helped by the Dutch Resistance, got back to London. It also reveals that, probably without his knowledge, Peter’s young and ambitious wife was leading a double life … as a secret agent.
