Books by Joe Bamford

Joe Bamford has always had an interest in the military and aviation. Both his grandfather and brother were awarded the Military Medal in the Great War and his uncle was killed in 1944. Bamford joined the RAF in 1968 as an assistant air-traffic controller, serving at Manston in Kent and Akrotiri in Cyprus. In 1992, Bamford set up the "Salford Lancaster Memorial Appeal" to raise a memorial to the crew of a Lancaster bomber that crashed and killed his grandmother. He was made an honorary member of the Manchester Bomber Command Association, who was heavily involved in the memorial that was dedicated on July 30, 1994, exactly 50 years after the crash. In 2006, Bamford was invited to make one of the final speeches and give a toast to all its members.