And Far from Home. Flying RAAF Transports in the Pacific War and After.
Language: English
Published by Macmillan, Sydney, 1985
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, AustraliaLawrence Jones Books
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viii, 184pp, index, bw ils, endpaper maps. Green cloth in jacket. Near new. Recollections of an RAAF squadron commander who flew Douglas transports for five years in the wartime Pacific and after through Asia, China and Japan. Size: 8vo.
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- Title
- And Far from Home. Flying RAAF Transports in the Pacific War and After.
- Author
- Balfe, John.
- Publisher
- Macmillan, Sydney
- Publication year
- 1985
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0333415078
- ISBN 13
- 9780333415078
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Australian Military, Biography, Militaria
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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Lawrence Jones Books
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