NIGHT FIGHTER ACE

Bob Braham, the subject of this biography, was the RAF's highest scoring night fighter aces and most highly decorated RAF fighter pilot of World War II, being awarded three DSOs and three DFCs. From 1940 through to 1944, flying Beaufighters and then Mosquitoes, he became one of the highest scoring fighter aces with twenty-two night victories to his credit, before he was shot down shortly after D-Day. He spent the rest of the war as a prisoner-of-war. In his first posting, to 29 Squadron, Braham served alongside the famous "Dam Buster" bomber pilot Guy Gibson for a year or more, and advised this fighter squadron on tactics against bombers.