The Invisible Campaign: Bomber Command Gardening Operations 1940-1945

The book chronicles RAF Bomber Command’s minelaying operations from 1940 to 1945, detailing aims, implementation, and impact on Axis shipping and naval targets.

Aerial mining by RAF Bomber Command was a vital part of the Allied war effort – claiming far more tonnage of Axis shipping destroyed than direct attack by either Coastal or Bomber Command itself. Minelaying operations commenced in April 1940 and expanded dramatically as the war progressed, yet today this vital campaign and its wide-r...