Title ---and far from home : flying RAAF transports in the Pacific War and after / John Balfe

Published South Melbourne : Macmillan, 1985

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Description viii, 184 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm Contents Gypsies in jungle greens, Flying the RAAF transports -- Survival, 'Four brown men crept out of the sea' -- Chariots without fire, Sketches of the squadrons -- Across the next ocean, To the Admiralties: 1944 -- Bill Newton VC, "The moving finger wrote..' -- Shangri-la, Escape from the hidden valley -- Dead island, Morotai: 1945 -- Home from hell, Flying out the prisoners -- First flight to Japan, 'Into skys not ours' -- Verdun, For whom the bell tolled -- A hair of the pig, To China for paint brushes:1946 -- Tokyo Airline, The Japan couriers -- The new breed, Pilots from Europe join the transports -- pacific pilot, David Hitchins AM AFC -- Pearls of great price, Anti-climax for the last courier -- Worms and early birds, An epilogue of Transport tales Notes Includes index Subject Balfe, J. D. (John D.), 1912- Australia. Royal Australian Air Force -- Biography. Australia. Royal Australian Air Force -- History -- 1939-1945 Australia. Royal Australian Air Force -- History -- World War, 1939-1945 Australia. Royal Australian Air Force -- History. Air pilots, Military -- Australia -- Biography. World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian. World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Australian. World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Southeast Asia. Genre/Form Autobiographies. Personal narratives. LC no. 86166941 ISBN 0333415078

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