ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780080501277/46f3fe21-8f6e-484c-9030-9772da6c3280/content/fig15_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> The term ‘tail-end Charlie’ was used in the United States Air Force to describe the poor fellow who sat beyond the tail plane of a Flying Fortress, whose loneliness was accompanied only by a machine gun. In the height of battle alas, Charlie was often unheard and unnoticed, and frequently dead. I hope that writing the last chapter in this volume does not place me in the role of tail-end Charlie. There are a lot of pilots flying this particular machine, so bringing up the rear is an unenviable task. However, I am still alive and my machine gun is loaded.
