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Bomber boys : the extraordinary adventures of a group of airmen who escaped the Japanese and became the RAAF's celebrated 18th Squadron / Marianne van Velzen.
- Title
- Bomber boys : the extraordinary adventures of a group of airmen who escaped the Japanese and became the RAAF's celebrated 18th Squadron / Marianne van Velzen.
- Author
- Velzen, Marianne van
- Publication
- Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2017.
- ©2017
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- Description
- xii, 305 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- March 1942. Singapore is about to fall. In Java, 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 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 then 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.
- Subject
- Australia. Squadron, 10
- Australia. Squadron, 10
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1900-1999
- Air pilots > Australia > History
- World War, 1939-1945 > Northern Territory
- World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, Dutch
- World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, Australian
- World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Australian
- Air pilots
- Military operations, Aerial > Australian
- Military operations, Aerial > Dutch
- Military participation > Australian
- Australia > History, Military > 20th century
- Australia
- Northern Territory
- Genre/Form
- History
- Military history
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781760296476
- 1760296473
- OCLC
- 973390238
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library