Item #123399 Black Sunday. When the US Fifth Air Force lost to New Guinea Weather. Michael John CLARINGBOULD.

Black Sunday. When the US Fifth Air Force lost to New Guinea Weather

Kingston, Aerothentic Publications, 2000/ 1995.

Quarto, 119 pages with 2 maps and numerous illustrations.

Colour-pictorial card covers; a fine copy.

'On a late 1944 April afternoon in New Guinea a weather front built up quickly and blocked the way home to more than 300 US 5th Air Force aircraft. Over enemy territory and caught between mountains and the sea, there was little but to take on the storm. By dusk that evening 37 aircraft were missing or had been destroyed. [It was] the biggest non-combat loss ever suffered by the USAF in World War Two ... more than half a century later, ten aircraft are still missing ...' Of 7 appendices, one is a list of list of personnel killed or missing in action, another lists aircraft lost and damaged.

Item #123399

Price (AUD): $35.00