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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gillison, Douglas. Royal Australian Air Force, 1939-1942. Canberra, Australian War Memorial [1962] (OCoLC)569568916 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Douglas Gillison |
OCLC Number: | 2000369 |
Description: | xiii, 786 pages illustrations, maps, diagrams, tables 24 cm. |
Contents: | Formation of the Royal Australian Air Force -- Salmond to Ellington -- Demand versus capacity -- The Empire plan: doctrines and decisions -- The new command -- Sea lane protection and aircraft production -- The Malay barrier -- American preparations -- Degrees of readiness -- Japan's seven-point assault -- The price of hesitation -- "Hours not days" -- The barrier weakens -- Australia becomes a base -- Token resistance -- Malaya convoys: January 1942 -- Withdrawal from Singapore -- The fall of Rabaul -- Ambon and after -- On Sumatra -- Retreat from Burma -- Loss of Timor and Java -- Assault on New Guinea -- Command and supply -- The China-Burma-India theatre -- Coral Sea and Midway -- "No second front" -- Problems of command -- Kokoda and Milne Bay -- Advance to Buna -- Gona, Buna, Sanananda -- Wau and the Bismarck Sea -- Appendices: 1. Military aviation 1909-1914 -- 2. The Air Force List-1925 -- 3. R.A.A.F. in the Darwin Raids -- 4. Australian, British, American and Japanese aircraft -- 5. Abbreviations. |
Series Title: | Australia in the war of 1939-1945., Series 3,, Air ;, v. 1. |
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