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Joe Leach was a member of the Militia Battalion before the war, but when the European conflict began, he applied to join the RAAF.

Before long he was training as a Wireless Gunner and was soon on his way, via the Panama Canal and America, to join the air war over Britain.

After a prolonged operational tour in 10 squadron Sunderland Flying Boats - much of it tracking and attacking German U-Boats off the Biscay coast of France, he eventually looked to home and the Pacific War.

After converting to Catalina flying boats, Leach found himself in Morotai with the 113 Air Sea Rescue Flight, retrieving downed pilots and carrying out operations in support of the advancing allied forces.

The Catalina's were used in the Borneo campaign at Balikpapan and Labuan. At war's end, he and his crew-mates became involved in the clean-up of Japanese occupied territory.

This is a great war story of an ordinary Australian, caught up in the war to defeat the fascists in Europe, while sharing the hardships of life in war-torn Britain.

In the pacific he joined the campaign to push back the expanding Japanese empire to its home islands.

  

Contents:

List of maps and Photographs - Preface - Abbreviations/Glossary - Introduction - Chapters: Joining Up - Royal Australian Air Force - Final Training - Panama and New Orleans - England - Airborne! - The Summer of 1943 - End of the first operational tour - On Leave - Duty Signals Officer - Alness and promotion - Back in the USA - Home Again - Life on Morotai - Bureaucratic wrangles - Action in Borneo - The Invasion of Balikpapan - To the Victors - The Leach Brothers Reunion - Ternate with Lady Blamey - Epilogue - Appendix : A , B , C , D Index

 
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SKU:9781876439484
Quantity:- out of stock -
Author/s: Joe Leach
Book Size(cm): 21 x 15
Condition: NEW
Format: Cardcover
Pages: 190
Printing &/or Publishing Information: Australian Military History Publications
Printing Year: 2004 reprint
ISBN: 9781876439484
Weight:0.40 kg
Price:$ 12.95
 

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