Pacific Profiles. Volume 14. Allied Bombers: B-25 Mitchell Series, Australia, New Guinea and the Solomons, 1942-1945
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The caption handwritten in ink on the verso reads 'Kingsford Smith plane "Southern Sky" day after opening of the Bridge'. We have handled another example of this photograph with a caption giving a slightly later date ('The Southern Sky. Monday March 28th 1932'). Either way, Kingsford Smith had participated in..... More
The caption handwritten in ink on the verso reads 'The Southern Sky. Monday March 28th 1932'. Kingsford Smith had participated in the celebrations for the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 19 March 1932, and was advertising scenic flights in Sydney newspapers: 'Fly with Air-Commodore Kingsford Smith, in ANA..... More
The 'Sydney Morning Herald' for 21 March 1932 describes the incident: 'Air-Commodore Kingsford Smith, after returning from participating in the display of illuminations at the Harbour Bridge on Saturday night, suffered a mishap at Mascot in which the 'plane "Southern Cross" was damaged. He made a good landing in the..... More
Sydney, RSNSW, 1889. An Australia-wide survey, in which the author pulls no punches. He expresses special indebtedness to the work of E.M. Curr, 'although some of [the latter's] conclusions have been widely different from those enunciated in this essay'. This volume also contains STEPHENS, Edward: The Aborigines of Australia, being..... More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2023. 'This second volume of Solomons Air War chronicles aerial warfare in the Solomon Islands theatre during the critical month of October 1942 ... October 1942 saw an explosion of air activity in the Solomons. During the first three weeks of the month busy Tokyo Express..... More
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Kent Town, The Author, in conjunction with Avonmore Books, 2017. Milingimbi island 'had fighter aircraft to defend it and Army troops on the ground. The island became a refuelling base for RAAF bombers as they refuelled and attacked the Japanese who had become entrenched in the islands north of Australia'..... More
[Colonel Light Gardens], Printed by Webb & Son for The Author, March 1958. One of 4000 copies; the front cover depicts the RFDSA Radio Network bases and outposts. More
Sorrento, The Author, 2007. The brief chronological history (pages iii-v) indicates that flying training commenced at Geraldton on 10 March 1941, and on 31 May 1945 'No 4 SFTS ceased to exist'. More
London, Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1942. John Lloyd Preece (1895-1969), one of the sons of the noted Adelaide bookseller and publisher F.W. Preece, was himself an influential bookseller, publisher and proprietor of Preece's Gallery. He 'studied English at the University of Adelaide ... In 1926 he visited Italy with Lionel..... More
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Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2023. The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk served with the Royal Australian Navy from 1968 to 1984; not least, aboard the aircraft carrier 'HMAS Melbourne'. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2023 [third, revised, edition]/ 1996 [second edition, with minor revisions]/ 1995. 'This edition is somewhat smaller, to enable it to reach a new generation of readers... The biggest changes are the omission of the original Chapter 1 [which] covered the period 1939-1941, [and] the Epilogue [which..... More
Kent, Fine Scroll, 1971 to 1993. As-issued bound volumes of the periodical; each volume has a cumulative index. The title of the bound volumes changed from 'Air Enthusiast' to 'Air International' at Volume 7. [44 items]. More
London, Temple Press Limited, 1918. The introduction is by Major-General W.S. Brancker; there is a chapter on the medical aspects of aviation by H. Graem Anderson. Provenance: Sydney Dunstone (14 February 1936), with his ownership details on the front flyleaf. RAAF Wing Commander Sydney Morgan Lewis Dunstone (1917-1990) was a...... More
London, The Folio Society, 1999 (second printing)/ 1998 [first thus]. Introduction by Max Arthur, with Lewis' foreword to the third edition of 1993. More
Sydney, Aerospace Publications, 1993 (third impression)/ 1988. The first book in the Australian Air Power series. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2023. 'Drawing on a wealth of new sources ... for the first time the full story of a little-known bomber offensive waged from remote northern Australia' (rear cover blurb). Not least, B-25 Mitchells and B-24 Liberators. More
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Canberra, Aerospace Publications, 1992. The eighth book in the Australian Air Power series. More
Canberra, Aerospace Publications, 1992. The eighth book in the Australian Air Power series. More