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Sansome, R S : The Bamboo Workshop: The History of the RAF Repair & Salvage Units, India/Burma 1941-1946

Braunton: Merlin, 1995

First Edition, paperback, 6"x8", very good condition, glossy laminated covers - front lightly creased, 213 pages, 28 b/w photo illustrations - Appendices on: Maintenance Units, Airfields, Aircraft Names, Squadrons, Commanding Officers, ---------Published posthumously by the author's family, he had drawn on his personal experiences and those of his friends as well as exhaustive research to produce a book of humour, tragedy and moments of amazing sensitivity from men who have endured unbelievable hardships. "Long after the war in Europe had been won, the Forgotten Army pushed on through India and Burma to clear the Malay Peninsula of Japanese. Air Support was vital and could not have been reliably maintained without the RAF Repair and Salvage Units to retrieve and patch up fighter and supply aircraft which dropped from the sky into almost impenetrable jungle. They worked round the clock in appalling conditions, often on remote airstrips hacked from jungle and surrounded by Japanese snipers. Sometimes totally cut off from parent units and near starvation, they used incredible ingenuity to get aircraft back into the air. The humour, the tragedy, and the moments of amazing sensitivity from men who have endured unbelievable hardships and who should be battle hardened is a study in human nature and an extremely enjoyable read".

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