Bomber boys / Marianne van Velzen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Velzen, Marianne van, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Air pilots--Australia--History.

Air pilots.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Crows Nest, Australia : Allen & Unwin, 2017.

Summary:

The unknown story of a unique RAAF squadron, its men and its mission to halt the Japanese advance in the Pacific.

Contents:

Cover

Also by Marianne Van Velzen

Title page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Author's note

Map of 18th and 120th Squadrons: Bases and flight movements

1 Java, 1942

2 The dispatch rider

3 Attack on Broome

4 Escape to Australia

5 Stapleton Station, NT

6 The bombing of Darwin

7 Archerfield Air Base, Brisbane

8 Flying under the bridge

9 Fairbairn Airfield, Canberra

10 The making of three traitors

11 Nothing is fair in love and war

12 Picking up the pieces

13 The move north

14 MacDonald Airfield, NT

15 First operational order

16 Across the Timor Sea

17 Batchelor, NT

18 War and horseracing

19 New recruits

20 Death of a friend

21 Moving on

22 The hell of Merauke

23 Island hopping

24 Return to Java

25 Lost and found

26 Message from a Don R

Epilogue

Pic section

Bibliography

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-925576-79-5

OCLC:

986183675