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For Raynor Barber, World War Two changed his understanding of life. In hindsight, everything that happened to him before being posted to New Guinea with the RAAF's 30 Squadron was just in preparation, and everything following, merely a consequence of that ninth month tour of Operations. By telling his story, a younger generation of Australians are given the opportunity to understand the reality beyond the heroism.

Put on a different pair of shoes - you are leading a team of Beaufighters over enemy territory in New Guinea. You are flying low over the water to avoid radar detection; so low, that when you look behind you see the backwash spraying up over the tail.

You've done this before, but an inexperienced pilot looks back and panics, pulling his aircraft up to two hundred feet before realizing what he's done. Your cover is blown. You've reached land now, you fly over a low ridge and see the airstrip below, anti aircraft fire blazing. You know for every visible tracer bullet there are five you cannot see. You have to fly throught what looks like a solid wall of fire.....


CONTENTS:

Illustrations and Maps - Acknowledgments - Introduction - Foreward - Authors Note - Legacy - Halcyon Days - New Zealand Autonomy - The Storm Breaks - Changing Forces - Active Duty and the Whispering Death - The Nightmare Begins - American Liaisons - On the Brink - Threshold of Endurance - A Changed World - Country Life - Back in Melbourne - Epilogue - Abbreviations - Glossary - Raynor's Air Force History - Index

 
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SKU:9781876439682
Quantity:- out of stock -
Author/s: Lisa Mariah
Book Size(cm): 21 x 15
Condition: NEW
Format: Softcover
Pages: 110
Printing &/or Publishing Information: Australian Military History Publications
Printing Year: 2006 1st Edition
ISBN: 9781876439682
Weight:0.29 kg
Price:$ 29.95
 

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