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Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 239pp, index, bibliography, appendices, endnotes, bw ills, maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Some underlining in red, slight edge wear to jacket. Size: Small 4to.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 144pp, appendices, bw ills, endpaper maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. With illustrations in colour and black & white, a very good copy in very good dustjacket. ; 270 x 195mm; x, 201 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good (ex-library). Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Light age and reading wear. Text and spine marked with Library stamps, but very discreetly, in all other respects in very good condition throughout. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Aviation; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 1875593071. ISBN/EAN: 9781875593071. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55332. …

4to; pp. (vi), 144; map endpapers, numerous b/w illustrations, appendices, index, original cloth, dustjacket, a fine copy. . First edition; signed by author.

4to. 240pp. Original boards in dustwrapper. Numerous black and white illustrations; a near fine copy. . First edition.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. xv, 208pp, index, bibliography, num bw ills, few col plates. Pictorial card covers. History of the RAAF Flight Training Schools in Australia during World War 2. Size: 4to.

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Hard cover dust wrapper , small quarto, 143pp, b&w illustrations. Light wear to edges of dw/boards; a near fine copy. The war time careers of Nicky Barr (member of last RAAF cadet course before EATS, 3 Squdaron, P-40 Tomahawk and Kittyhawk); Hugo Armstrong (member of first EATS course, Spitfire sweeps and 12 victories: 129 Squadron, 72 Squadron, 611 Squadron); and Peter Panitz and Dickie Williams (leading RAAF mosquito intruder crew who roamed France at night and attacked trains at treetop level with 456 Squadron and 464 Squadron).…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, small quarto, xv/191pp, b&w photos. A little wear on edges of dw/boards, signed by editor Mark Laxr at centre of half-title page; a very good copy. Joe Bull was an aircraft mechanic with 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps 1916-19. His diaries offer a fresh perspective on the Australian Flying Corps squadron on operations in Sinai and Palestine in the First World War. The diary is complemented by 100 photos taken by Joe. Lots of details of squadron personnel, the aircraft, locations, clashes with the enemy, success and losses.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Royal octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and endpaper maps; 229pp., with many monochrome and colour illustrations. Minor wear; very faint spotting to the text bock edges. Dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn. Near fine. Standard postage quoted is for a maximum 1kg book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. This book's packed weight is over 1kg so extra charges for overseas postage will apply. Books listed on Abebooks are not kept at our bookshop. Please enquire if you wish to see the book at our premises.…

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Card covers, 262pp, b&w photos. New copy. This is a REVISED EDITION of the book first published in 1991 by St Martins Press, USA. Account of the destruction of the crucial Japanese reinforcement convoy to Lae on 2-4 March 1943: A joint Royal Australian Air Force and the US 5th Air Force battle against the Japanese. Told with official records, captured documents, interrogation reports, and the recollections and memoirs of the participants. Wartime propaganda and mythology are swept aside and the facts presented, with detail including the identities of the ships involved, their cargoes, and the fate of those aboard. Appendices include lists of the ships and cargoes; air crew lists; bombing analysis and the air units involved.…

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Card covers 160pp b&w photos. Very good+ Covers the role of the RAAF in East Timor - operations Warden, Tanager and Stabilise - which was pivotal to the success of INTERFET and subsequent United Nations operations. Covers the background to intervention, air operations, airfields and airmen, life and work "in country", and details of the support provided by RAAF bases in Townsville, Tindal and Darwin. Includes nominal rolls, and honours and commendations. Appendices relate to Combined Air Lift Wing, 381, 382, and 386 Expeditionary Combat Support squadrons as well as 86 Wing Detachment and 2 Airfield Defence Squadron and inculde honours and recommendations for Operation Warden.…

4to. pp. viii, 160; map endpapers, b/w photographic illustrations throughout, appendices, index, original boards in dustwrapper. A near fine copy. . First edition. The scarce hardcover issue.

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, small quarto, b&w photos. Light wear on dw edges and corners; a very good copy. The author, a RAAF Liberator navigator, has written an account of the Atlantic submarine campaign from the perspective of Liberator crews, and includes details of every attack known to have included RAAF aircrew, the in-flight activities of every man in the crew, the wealther, the tactics, technological advances anddetails of the successes and high cost in lost aircraft and crew. Includes lots of official and personal photos and a list of all known RAAF aircrew on Coastal Command Liberators.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, large octavo, 250pp, b&w photos and colour profiles, maps on eps. Light shelf wear on edges; a new copy (unused - from storage) in mint condition. 75 Squadron was formed in March 1942, when Australia had not one fighter squadron in the entire continent. Until 1945, 75 Squadron flew in the New Guinea and Borneo campaigns, and after the war, operated Mustangs. When jets arrived, the Squadron reequipped with Vampires, Meteors, Avon Sabres and Mirages until moving on to the F/A-18 Hornet. Includes roll of honour, Commanding Officers and roll of the original members of the Squadron.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Royal octavo; 1st edition hardcover, with gilt spine titles and endpaper maps; 321pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; very slight offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper. Near fine. Standard postage quoted is for a maximum 1kg book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. This book's packed weight is over 1kg so extra charges for overseas postage will apply. Books listed on Abebooks are not kept at our bookshop. Please enquire if you wish to see the book at our premises.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, 344pp, 40 b&w photos, four maps. A little light wear on dw edges and some rubbing of dw surface, small chip at top of dw spine; a very good copy. At Rabaul in January 1942 Wing Commander John Lerew commanded 24 Squadron RAAF, equipped with four modified airliners and ten Wirraway training planes. His Wirraways lasted seven minutes against a Japanese air armada of 109 fighters and bombers. The remaining air strength at Rabaul comprised two aircraft, and when he asked for modern fighters, Lerew was told that there were none - but he was to attack. He then sent the Roman gladiator's salute to Headquarters: 'We who are about to die salute you'. When ordered to leave Rabaul alone and hand over his men to be used as infantry in the hopeless sacrifice against the Japanese invasion force, Lerew ignored it and organised and led the successful escape of his men to New Guinea, saving them from certain death in Japanese captivity. Back on bombing operations soon after, he led a volunteer strike against Japanese ships at Gasmata, but was shot down, and made a miraculous escape from his blazing Hudson, evaded Japanese searchers and returned to safety. Afterwards, Lerew commanded the biggest RAAF depot in Australia at Laverton, and in 1945 established the RAAF Directorate of Flying Safety. In 1946 he joined the International Civil Aviation Organisation, the quiet achievers who made possible safe standardised international airline operations enjoyed around the world today. This is John Lerew's story, from joining the RAAF in 1932, through the pre-war years, the wartime expansion, his operational experiences and his post-war work to make civil aviation safe for all concerned.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by author. B&W photographs throughout. 27 x 19 cm. 140 pp. Scarce. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. ix+140pp., Pictorial colour illustrated dustjacket with b/w portrait of author inside rear flap- covered in removable protective clear plastic, blue papered boards with white text to spine, b/w squadron illust. to endpapers, signed by author to previous owner on half title page, full page map, preface by author, b/w plts. & text ills., appends., bibliog., index. The pilots and navigators shared primitive conditions, yet carried out numerous destructive strikes against the enemy in Timor and the occupied island groups, each flight involved a return trip of a thousand nautical miles or more in all weather conditions, entirely over the Arafura Sea. Some did not return. Size: Quarto. Book. …

4to, xvi + 192pp. Original board in predominantly sepia-tined pictorial dustwrapper, slightyl marked and very slightly edgeworn. Numerous b/w photographic illustrations throguhout. Appendices include registers of No.1 Squadron Aircraft, Squadron Locations, Successful Squadron Combats, Personnel Losses, and Personnel taken Prisoner of War. A near-fine copy. First edition.…

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Card covers small 4to 208pp b&w photos and maps. Very good+ Signed by author. Describes the role of the Uranquinty and Wagga Wagga training schools in the air war of 1939-45. Covers the set up of the Empire Air Training Scheme and looks at the service of graduates in the Battle of Britain, the Far East, and Middle East. Looks at instructors and ground staff as well as pilots. Includes course rolls and lots of group photos.…

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Hard Cover dust wrapper 262pp b&w photos. Near fine This is a REVISED EDITION of the book first published in 1991 by St Martins Press, USA. Account of the destruction of the crucial Japanese reinforcement convoy to Lae on 2-4 March 1943: A joint Royal Australian Air Force and the US 5th Air Force battle against the Japanese. Told with official records, captured documents, interrogation reports, and the recollections and memoirs of the participants. Wartime propaganda and mythology are swept aside and for the first time the facts are presented, with detail including the identities of the ships involved, their cargoes, and the fate of those aboard. Appendices include lists of the ships and cargoes; air crew lists; bombing analysis and the air units involved.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, small 4to, 240pp b&w photos. Light wear on edges; a very good copy. Story of the most renowned Lancaster of 460 Squadron RAAF, and the men who flew it and maintained it. Draws on recollections of those who flew it and includes details of operations, paying particular attention to the last operation. As appendices, includes and itinery for Queenie VI, crew members of G-for-George and RAAF award citation extracts.…

4to.xii+321pp.Map endpapers; b&w photographs throughout + 4 pp. colour profiles of aircraft; Original boards in dustwrapper. Numerous colour and black and white illustrations; a near fine copy. . First edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Very light foxing/staining on edges. Head edge bear a darker stain. Front free endpaper and copyright page slightly rippled in bottom corner. Pages lightly thumbed. Else book is in good condition. Dustwrapper is rubbed and stained. It is worn along edges, and has several tears (biggest is 25mm tear in top edge of front cover). Else it is in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously; the usually present better than they sound.…

1st edition dust jacket As New lge. octavo x + 196 + vpp., b/w pls., text ills., appends., index, Uranquity 5 Flying Training School produced 1515 Pilots between 1941 and 1945 most of whom went on to fly in combat in a wide range of allied aircraft. Many experiences are recorded in this book. Neat ownership stamp o/w nice copy.…