Vulcan 607: The Epic Story of the Most Remarkable British Air Attack Since WWII

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Everything that follows is, to the best of my knowledge, a true and accurate account of what happened. I’ve not had to join the dots to make the story work. Inevitably memories fade, and in interviewing so many people for the book I’ve been presented with sometimes contradictory accounts. On the rare occasions when this has happened, I’ve done my best to establish a consensus. I’ve drawn on a variety of different sources and this is reflected in the dialogue in the book. Where it appears in quotation marks it’s either what I’ve been told was said, or what’s been reported in previous accounts or records, published and unpublished. Where speech is in italics – often the call-and-response checks that accompany any military flying – it represents genuine dialogue that has been taken from another source to add richness to a scene. I hope it can be argued, with a degree of certainty, that it’s what would have been said. Finally, where internal thoughts are included in italics, they are accurate recordings of what participants told me they were thinking at the time.

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