. AND FAR FROM HOME. Flying RAAF Transports in the Pacific War and after.
Language: English
Published by Macmillan, Melbourne, 1985
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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- Title
- . AND FAR FROM HOME. Flying RAAF Transports in the Pacific War and after.
- Author
- John Balfe
- Publisher
- Macmillan, Melbourne
- Publication year
- 1985
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0333415078
- ISBN 13
- 9780333415078
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
Gypsies in jungle greens, Flying the RAAF transports --
Survival, 'Four brown men crept out of the sea' --
Chariots without fire, Sketches of the squadrons --
Across the next ocean, To the Admiralties: 1944 --
Bill Newton VC, "The moving finger wrote.' --
Shangri-la, Escape from the hidden valley --
Dead island, Morotai: 1945 --
Home from hell, Flying out the prisoners --
First flight to Japan, 'Into skys not ours' --
Verdun, For whom the bell tolled --
A hair of the pig, To China for paint brushes:1946 --
Tokyo Airline, The Japan couriers --
The new breed, Pilots from Europe join the transports --
pacific pilot, David Hitchins AM AFC --
Pearls of great price, Anti-climax for the last courier --
Worms and early birds, An epilogue of Transport tales.
Survival, 'Four brown men crept out of the sea' --
Chariots without fire, Sketches of the squadrons --
Across the next ocean, To the Admiralties: 1944 --
Bill Newton VC, "The moving finger wrote.' --
Shangri-la, Escape from the hidden valley --
Dead island, Morotai: 1945 --
Home from hell, Flying out the prisoners --
First flight to Japan, 'Into skys not ours' --
Verdun, For whom the bell tolled --
A hair of the pig, To China for paint brushes:1946 --
Tokyo Airline, The Japan couriers --
The new breed, Pilots from Europe join the transports --
pacific pilot, David Hitchins AM AFC --
Pearls of great price, Anti-climax for the last courier --
Worms and early birds, An epilogue of Transport tales.
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