Courage in the Skies
Allen & Unwin (Verlag)
978-1-76029-393-2 (ISBN)
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This is a story of truly heroic deeds during the fall of Singapore, taking munitions and military personnel up and refugees back, of escape and subterfuge as crews prepared for these dangerous operations.
It tells of how Qantas confronted the Japanese advance into Indonesia and on to Timor, of its planes being shot down by Japanese Zeros, and the little-mentioned bombing of Broome during which 14 flying boats were destroyed and many lives were lost. Then there are the Papua New Guinea campaigns, the highlights of which are the rescue of 90 Australian civilians who made it through to Mt Hagan after the Japanese took Rabaul and the airline's involvement in the great battles of Kokoda, Buna and Gona.
This is a story of an extraordinary group of Australians who confronted the dark days of World War II with bravery, commitment and initiative. They just happened to be Qantas people.
Jim Eames is author of The Country Undertaker, Six Feet Under or Up in Smoke, Taking to the Skies and The Flying Kangaroo. As one of Australia's first aviation writers, and former press secretary to the Minister for Aviation and former Director of Public Affairs for Qantas, he is a man who has lived and breathed aviation. He also tells a great yarn.
Introduction
1. Prelude to a war: The Imperial-BOAC dilemma
2. A world at war
3. The shadows darken, 1940
4. Cats across the Pacific
5. The Americans are coming: Pan Am
6. Route extensions and Sibolga dogs
7. The battle for Singapore
8. Running the gauntlet
9. Impregnable no more: The fall of Singapore
10. Aub Koch's war: Part one
11. Loss and retreat: The link is cut
12. Means of escape
13. Near miss at Darwin
14. Dave Ross's Dili dilemma
15. Tjilatjap: The rat trap
16. 'One of our aircraft is missing': The loss of Circe
17. Death and disaster at Broome
18. Papua New Guinea: The last stand
19. The struggle for aircraft and the Bully Beef Bombers
20. Empires to the rescue
21. The Japanese have landed
22. Aub Koch's war: Part two
23. 'A most fascinating and romantic undertaking': In secret across the Indian Ocean
24. The home front
25. The end comes
26. Among those who served
27. The struggle for recognition
Acknowledgements
Appendix Qantas staff casualties
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.02.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 2 x 8pp b&w plates |
| Verlagsort | St Leonards |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-76029-393-8 / 1760293938 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-76029-393-2 / 9781760293932 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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