Download or read book Enemy Coast Ahead - Uncensored written by Guy Gibson and published by Crecy Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1946, Enemy coast ahead quickly became regarded as the classic Bomber Command book. Following Gibson's RAF career from flying the Hampden and Manchester at the beginning of WWII, the book concludes with the triumphant return home of the Lancasters from the famous 1943 Dambuster raid which Gibson himself led and for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. The fact that Gibson was so highly decorated and did not survive the war has only added to his legend and the popularity of the book. And yet, what has not been widely known is that the published edition of Enemy coast ahead was carefully cut by wartime censors to conceal not only specific details of Gibson's career and secret aspects of Bomber Command operations, but more explicitly his views of the conduct of the bombing campaign, his opinion of senior officers and his thoughts on the behaviour of the general population in wartime conditions. Now Gibson's original manuscript is available revealing his true view of the course of the war, of the wartime public, of his pilots and crews and of Bomber Command tactics.