Bomber Boys

Download or Read eBook Bomber Boys PDF written by Marianne van Velzen and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Bomber Boys
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Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9781925576795
ISBN-13 : 1925576795
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Book Synopsis Bomber Boys by : Marianne van Velzen

Book excerpt: March 1942. Java is about to fall. An Australian military dispatch rider and a Dutch air force transport pilot embark on a frightening escape from the advancing Japanese that takes them from Bandung to a crash landing just north of Darwin. Both would later join a unique band of flyers determined to strike back at the enemy. Bomber Boys is the extraordinary and little known story of more than 100 Dutch airmen, stranded in Australia with no country to return to, who were joined by a contingent of Australians to make up the RAAF's No. 18 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron. Formed in Canberra in April 1942, the squadron flew operational coastal patrols before eventually being relocated to the secret MacDonald Airfield, north of Pine Creek in the Northern Territory, and eventually Batchelor, near Darwin. This is, however, more than a story about the 900 bombing raids, reconnaissance missions and attacks on Japanese shipping that the squadron flew in its three years of existence under Australian control. At its heart, is a powerful and compelling story of a group of very different men, thrown together for a common purpose, and the strange and sometimes difficult friendships they formed.


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