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Scorpion Force
Can a wholesale massacre of British ships by German E-boats be prevented?
Book length 112 thousand words
It is August, 1943, and Britain's Combined Operations has been carrying out an enormous deception plan against the Germans; Operation Starkey, the mock invasion of France. One of the many risks the operation will encounter is the possibility that German E-boats, the scourge of the English Channel, may turn up in force, with air cover, and inflict significant loss on the phoney, and vulnerable, "invasion" fleet. The answer? Tempt the E-boats into making a mass attack before the invasion fleet sails - and deal them a lasting blow.
Flight Lieutenant John "Jackers" Ackroyd and his flight are dispatched to RAF Hawkinge, to be equipped with the RAF's latest and most deadly fighter, the Spitfire Mark Twelve. "Scorpion Force", comprising Ackroyd's Spitfires and a flotilla of RN Motor Torpedo Boats, develops a bold plan to tempt the E-boats to their destruction. Bold it may be, but it is also risky and fraught with difficulty; can it succeed?
"Scorpion Force" brings to life the operational existence of the front-line squadrons based at RAF Hawkinge in the summer of 1943 in the run up to the notorious events of the second week of September.
Book length 112 thousand words
It is August, 1943, and Britain's Combined Operations has been carrying out an enormous deception plan against the Germans; Operation Starkey, the mock invasion of France. One of the many risks the operation will encounter is the possibility that German E-boats, the scourge of the English Channel, may turn up in force, with air cover, and inflict significant loss on the phoney, and vulnerable, "invasion" fleet. The answer? Tempt the E-boats into making a mass attack before the invasion fleet sails - and deal them a lasting blow.
Flight Lieutenant John "Jackers" Ackroyd and his flight are dispatched to RAF Hawkinge, to be equipped with the RAF's latest and most deadly fighter, the Spitfire Mark Twelve. "Scorpion Force", comprising Ackroyd's Spitfires and a flotilla of RN Motor Torpedo Boats, develops a bold plan to tempt the E-boats to their destruction. Bold it may be, but it is also risky and fraught with difficulty; can it succeed?
"Scorpion Force" brings to life the operational existence of the front-line squadrons based at RAF Hawkinge in the summer of 1943 in the run up to the notorious events of the second week of September.
331 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 18, 2015
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