Malcolm Mitchell

Then came a sight never to be forgotten. There were aircraft and gliders as far as the eye could see. Below, on the sea, was a seemingly endless stream of ships, all heading the same way... It was June 1944 – Operation ‘Overlord’ – and the author was in the thick of it. He was a flight engineer on board a Stirling bomber, towing a glider loaded with troops, a jeep and a 75 mm gun to Normandy. D-Day was followed by flight after flight into the battle zone at Arnhem, where Malcolm Mitchell and his fellow airmen faced fighter attacks and ack-ack fire to resupply our beleaguered men on the ground. Here, in Out of the Darkness, he recalls the fatigue, the fear and the exhilaration of operations throughout Europe, with a wonderful eye...