141 Pages
ISBN 978-1-917120-69-2
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Tempsford Airfield was the base for some of the most secret squadrons of the Second World War. They specialised in the delivery of agents either by parachute or by landing at night in a moonlit field, usually by the light of just three torches. The Squadrons also conducted pick-up operations, landing in the chosen fields to collect agents and others who needed to return to England.

Special Operations Executive (SOE) Agents in the field needed equipment, and the Tempsford Squadrons supplied it; they delivered arms, ammunition, radios and other equipment to the resistance movements in German occupied countries.

These Squadrons acquired, over the years, various nicknames. They have been referred to as the Moonlight Squadrons, The Cloak and Dagger Squadrons and, perhaps somewhat tongue in cheek, The Tempsford Taxis!

This new book – I’ll Come to Thee by Moonlight – chronicles the genesis of the Lysander and Hudson pick-up operations, the training of the aircrew who flew them and the agents who were infiltrated and exfiltrated, along with descriptions of several missions – often in the words of those taking part.