MILITARY BOOKS, DVD's &
CD-R's
COVERING WORLD WAR 2
IN THE SOUTH WEST PACIFIC AREA
I am particularly interested in researching events of a military nature, that occurred within Australia during WWII
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"Australia @ War" Research Products
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War Clouds over Benalla The History of No. 11 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF Station Benalla 1941 - 1945 by Doug Williams |
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Sir, who won the war? Gippsland 1939 - 1945 by Marcus Hill |
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Fortress Fremantle Its Lost Sub & Contribution to World War II by Tim Baldock |
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A Town at War Sale in Gippsland 1939 - 1945 by Marcus Hill |
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It Wasn't So Jolly The Story of the Jolly Rogers and the James Horner Crew 1942 - 1945 by Tom Baker |
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Kangaroo Squadron American Courage in the Darkest Days of World War II by Bruce Gamble |
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South Pacific Air War - Volume 2 The Struggle for Moresby March-April 1942 by Michael Claringbould and Peter Ingman |
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The Black Soil Plains and
Beyond Recollections of the 1st Australian Armoured Division by Cate Clark |
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The Making of a Spitfire Pilot by Ralph and Gay Murphy |
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Charles Ulm The untold story of one of Australia's greatest aviation pioneers by Rick Searle |
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Miallo - Untold Secrets a novel by Susan Bardon |
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Australia's First Spies The remarkable story of Australia's intelligence operations, 1901-45 by John Fahey |
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The Missing Man From the outback to Tarakan, the powerful story of LEN WATERS, Australia's first aboriginal fighter pilot by Peter Rees |
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Allied Translator and
Interpreter Section Translation of Japanese documents & Interrogation of Japanese POWs in Brisbane during WWII By Peter Dunn |
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Leadership Secrets of the
Australian Army by Brigadier Nicholas Jans (Ret'd), OAM |
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Scorched Earth Australia's Secret Plan for Total War under Japanese Invasion in World War II By Sue Rosen |
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Crew The Story of the Men Who Flew RAAF Lancaster "J" for Jig by Mike Colman |
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Townsville Air Depot by Peter Dunn |
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The Secret Code-Breakers of
Central Bureau How Australia's signals-intelligence network helped win the Pacific War by David Dufty |
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Courage in the Skies The Untold Story of Qantas, its brave men and women and their extraordinary role in World War II by Jim Eames |
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South Pacific Air War - Volume 1 The Fall of Rabaul December 1941 - March 1942 |
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Battle of the Coral
Sea The Battle that Saved Australia by Peter Dunn |
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The General's Son Arthur MacArthur in Australia during WWII by Peter Dunn |
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Aussie Slang by Peter Dunn |
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WWII Military
Abbreviations by Peter Dunn |
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"Australia @ War"
on USB Memory Stick |
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Marine Section |
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Brisbane WW2 V Now ... from an American Archives photo viewpoint Newstead House By Roger R. Marks with Peter Dunn |
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From Up Over To Down Under: And Back |
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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 by Marianne van Velzen |
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Code Breakers Inside the shadow world of Signals Intelligence in Australia's two Bletchley Parks by Craig Collie |
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Some Came Home Pacific War Veterans Tell their Stories of Survival from Rabaul By Schindler Films |
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Known Unto God How One Man's Heroic Decision Changed the Lives of Many By Schindler Films |
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The Empire Strikes South Japan's Air War Against Northern Australia 1942-45 by Dr. Tom Lewis OAM Illustrated by Michael Claringbould |
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New Zealand in the Pacific War Personal Accounts of World War II By Bruce M. Petty |
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WWII Military Telephone Directory
for Brisbane - February 1945 127 pages full of Military History in Brisbane. Shows location, building, floor level and phone numbers. |
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Ken's Men Against the Empire The Illustrated History of the 43rd Bombardment Group During World War II Volume I: Prewar to October 1943 - The B-17 Era by Lawrence J. Hickey with Steve Birdsall, Madison D. Jonas, Edward M. Rogers, and Osamu Tagaya |
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Save Our Souls Rescues Made by U.S. Submarines During WWII by Douglas E. Campbell |
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War at the End of the World Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight for New Guinea, 1942-1945 by James P. Duffy |
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Check Six! A Thunderbolt Pilot's War Across the Pacific by James C. Curran & Terrence G. Popravak, Jr. |
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U-Boat Far From Home The Epic Voyage of U 862 to Australia and New Zealand by David Stevens |
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Relentless Pursuit The Untold Story of the U.S. 5th Air Force's 39th Fighter Squadron by Ken Dooley |
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New Guinea Diary A Doctor's Tale from WWII by Sidney Goldman |
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Sappers in the West Army Engineers in Western Australia by Graham McKenzie-Smith |
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Aircraft Crashes of Northern Queensland
Australia 1942 - 1945 by Michael Musumeci |
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The Fifth Column in World War II Suspected Subversives in the Pacific War and Australia by Robert Loeffel |
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A Mystery Unsolved... The
Loss of Catalina A24-49 by Bob Alford and Tony Morgan |
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Dad's War Photos Adventures in the South Pacific By Neal Bertrand |
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Between the Dances World War 2 Women Tell Their Stories By Jacqueline Dinan |
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Allied Air Transport Operations South
West Pacific Area in WWII Volume Four: 1944 - Supporting the Allied advances by Robert H. Kelly |
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Death by Mustard Gas How Military Secrecy and Lost Weapons can Kill by Geoff Plunkett |
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MacArthur and Halsey's "Pacific
Island Hoppers" The Forgotten Fleet of World War II by David D. Bruhn |
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An Officer in MacArthur's Court A Memoir of the first Headquarters Commandant for General Douglas MacArthur By John F. Day III |
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More Than a Haircut and Shave South Brisbane Dry Dock - A History by David Jones and Peter Nunan |
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All the Way to the USA Australian WWII War Brides By Robyn Arrowsmith |
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The Morning Side of
the Hill by Marion Houldsworth |
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The Soldiers' Wall A Glimpse into their World by Lyris Mitchell |
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Century of Silent
Service by Graham Seal and Lloyd Blake |
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Porton - A Deadly Trap by Audrey Davidson and Battle Survivors |
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Shadows of War On the Brisbane Line by Graham Smith |
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Australia's Worst Aviation Disaster |
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Taking to the Skies Daredevils, heroes and hijackers, Australia flying stories from the Catalina to the Jumbo by Jim Eames |
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The 1943 Canal Creek Air
Crash and other aircraft disasters in Central Queensland during WW2 by Mary O'Brien |
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Target Rabaul The Allied Siege of Japan's Infamous Stronghold March 1943 - August 1945 By Bruce Gamble |
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Japanese Air Forces Over the NWA
1942-1945 by Bob Alford with Illustrations by Darryl Ford |
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Eagles of the Southern Sky The Tainan Air Group in WWII - Volume One: New Guinea by Luca Ruffato and Michael J. Claringbould |
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Carrier Attack Darwin 1942 The Complete Guide to Australia's own Pearl Harbor by Dr. Tom Lewis & Peter Ingman |
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The Military Aviation
Heritage of Townsville 1940 to the Present RAAF Townsville Museum |
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The Rainbow Through the Rain by Geoffrey Scott Mowat |
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No Time for Fear Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II by Diane Burke Fessler |
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Gordonvale and the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment A Mulgrave Shire Historical Society Publication |
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As I Remember Them Men and Women who Shaped a Life By Peter Isaacson |
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Like Snow on the Desert By Ronald William Walesby Includes his WWII experiences |
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World War II The Australian Experience By Michael Andrews |
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My Life in the Service The World War II Diary of Staff Sergeant Jack E. Bates 2nd Squadron, 22nd Bombardment Group, Fifth Air Force |
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Camouflage Australia Art, Nature, Science and War by Ann Elias |
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Fighting the Kimberley The 3 Australian Corps Kimberley Guerilla Warfare Group 1942 - 1943 by Peter J. Bridge |
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No. 2 OTU RAAF Mildura and No. 8 OTU RAAF Parkes By John Lever |
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"Over and Out" Sam's Story Edited by Robert S. Cutler |
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2/14 Australian Infantry
Battalion by W.B. Russell |
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Diary of World War II North
Queensland (Update) Data CD-Rom (1,500 page) Reference Book by Peter Nielsen |
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Secret Fleets Fremantle's World War II Submarine Base by Lynne Cairns |
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Fleet Radio Unit Pacific Makalapa by Jim Schlueter |
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Commando Kayak The Story of the Folboat during WWII by John Hoehn |
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It's Not Hollywood, But ... "Bob Hope's Plane forced to crash-land in Australia" By Mitch McKay |
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Darwin's Submarine I-124 The Story of a covert Japanese Squadron waging a Secret Underwater War against northern Australia By Dr. Tom Lewis |
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Zero Hour in Broome The Untold Story of the Attacks on Northwest Australia in 1942 By Dr. Tom Lewis & Peter Ingman |
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El Tigre Frank Holland, M.B.E. Commando, Coastwatcher Editor Peter Stone, with Mabel Holland & John Holland |
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Beneath Cold Waves A Pictorial Glossary of Vessels Sunk in Wartime Australian Waters by Kevin Gomm |
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Darwin Spitfires The Real Battle for Australia by Anthony Cooper |
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The Fleet Radio Unit Pacific - FRUPAC A Pictorial History, Naval Security Group NSG, US Navy 1943 - 1946 by Jim Schlueter |
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Darwin's Air War 1942 - 1945 An Illustrated History Commemorating the Darwin Air Raids by Bob Alford |
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My New Guinea Diary by Ernest C. Ford |
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In the Shadow of the Eagle German Raider and U-boat Attacks office Western Australia and in the Southern Ocean during World War II By Kevin Gomm |
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Every Day a Nightmare American Pursuit Pilots if the Defense of Java, 1941-1942 by William H. Bartsch |
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Australia's Liberators by Charles Darby |
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Twelve Terrible Tales! Children's Wartime Stories by Jill Mather |
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Fortress Rabaul The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942 - April 1943 by Bruce Gamble |
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Tall Tails of the South Pacific An anthology of flying stories by John Laming |
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Under the Southern
Cross The Forgotten Service of World War II by William F. Andrews (2nd Edition) |
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The First Commandos Ralph Coyne's Wartime Experiences 1942 - 45 by Ralph Coyne 2009 |
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Conduct Under Fire 1941 -
1945 Four Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese by John A. Glusman |
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Rampage of the Roarin' 20's The Illustrated History of the 312th Bombardment Group during World War II Lawrence J. Hickey Michael H. Levy with Michael J. Claringbould |
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Tojo's Fate Australia's Secret War by Cyrus C. McFarlane |
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Aviator Extraordinary The Sidney Cotton Story As told to Ralph Barker |
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Red Sun on the Kangaroo Paw Japanese Air Raids and Attacks on Western Australia during World War II by Kevin Gomm |
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Airlines & Aircraft of the Ansett Group 1921 - 2002 by Fred Niven (Includes WWII activities of the Ansett Group) |
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Never a Dull Moment by Philip Dulhunty |
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In Just Five Years
- The RAAF & Nhill in World War II 1941 - 1946 by Kevin O'Reilly |
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By the
Seats of their Pants (DVD Video) |
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The Story of the Krait Tigers & Snakes (DVD Video) |
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Defending
Fremantle Albany and Bunbury 1939 to 1945 by Graham McKenzie-Smith |
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RAAF 83 & Army
Co-operation Wings RAAF Army Co-operation units in the South West Pacific 1940 - 1946 By John Lever |
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The Story of the
42nd Australian Infantry Battalion in World War II by Cpl. S. E. Benson |
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The Spirit of
the Forty-Second Narrative of the 42nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Division, Australian Imperial Forces, during the Great War, 1914-1918 Written and compiled by Vivian Brahms |
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Radioman An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor and World War II in the Pacific by Carol Edgemon Hipperson |
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The Old
Campaigners Camels, Mules, Donkeys and Waler Horses by Jill Mather |
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Refugees and
Rebels Indonesian Exiles in Wartime Australia by Jan Lingard |
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Dearest Bert |
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Morning of the Rising
Sun The Heroic Story of the Battles of Guadalcanal by Kenneth I. Friedman, Ph. D |
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Black Jack's Last Mission |
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Queensland War Memorials and
Tributes by Shirley and Trevor McIvor |
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A Unique Flight The historic aircraft collection of the Australian War Memorial by Michael Nelmes |
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Doomed at the Start American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 194-1942 by William H. Bartsch |
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Fifth Air Force in Profile The Detailed Color Markings of a Forgotten Pacific Air Force by Michael John Claringbould |
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Iron Range Airbase Carved in the Cape York Jungle 1942-1945 by Michael D. Musumeci |
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Operation Plum The Ill-fated 27th Bombardment Group and the Fight for the Western Pacific by Adrian R. Martin and Larry W. Stephenson |
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Vampire Squadron The Saga of the 44th Fighter Squadron in the South and Southwest Pacific by William H. Starke, Lt. Col. USAFR (Ret.) |
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Melbourne to Manila by Ovid Di Fiore |
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"Not Just a Stone Frigate!" HMAS Maitland, Newcastle, New South Wales, 1940-1946 by Frank and Jacqueline Rice |
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Wings of Destiny Wing Commander Charles Learmonth, DFC and Bar and the Air War in New Guinea by Charles Page |
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Forgotten Heroes The Australian Waler horse by Jill Mather |
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Pauleen A young woman's wartime experiences at an Officer Candidate School by Noel W. Wallis |
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Allied Air Transport
Operations South West Pacific Area in WWII Volume Three 1943 - Air Transport approaches full strength by Robert H. Kelly |
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Darwin's Battle for
Australia A History of Darwin's Role in the Defence of Australia in WW-2 |
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Chemical Weapons in Australia Australia's Involvement in Chemical Warfare 1914 - 1945 by Geoff Plunkett |
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Combat Recon 5th Air Force Images from the SW Pacific 1943 - 45 by Robert J. Stava |
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B-24 Liberator Units of
the Pacific War by Robert F. Dorr |
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Proud to be Third Personnel Recollections, Photographs and a Biographical Roll of the 2/3rd Australian Independent Company/Commando Squadron in World War Two by Darren Robins |
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Darkroom Soldier Photographs and Letters from the South Pacific Theater World War II by Frederick H. Hill with George Venn |
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Wings on the River Flying Boats on the Brisbane River & Redland Bay by David Jones |
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Swing by Sailor True Stories from the War Brides of HMS Victorious by Catherine Dyson |
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Balmoral Cemetery Pacific Veterans Stories of Brisbane's Balmoral Cemetery World War Two Pacific Campaign Veterans and Life on the Homefront by Friends of Balmoral Cemetery Inc. |
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Artillery Units at Kelvin Grove A tribute to their guns and gunners Kelvin Grove Barracks Artillery Historical Group, Brisbane, 2006 |
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Spitfire Avenue By Robert Martin |
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Kenneth N. Walker Airpower's Untempered Crusader By Martha Byrd |
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Kanji & Codes Learning Japanese for World War II by Irwin L. Slesnick & Carole E. Slesnick |
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Incident in the Life of a
B-25 Pilot by Roy Lee Grover |
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Allied Air Transport
Operations South West Pacific Area in WWII Volume Two 1943 - Year of expansion and consolidation by Robert H. Kelly |
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Swamp Ghost B-17E 41-2446 A DVD by Justin Taylan |
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The Truth about Kieta January 1942 by John V. Plunkett |
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Haywire The War-time Camps at Hay by Hay Historical Society |
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'Man Overboard' The HMAS Nizam Tragedy by Andrew Rose ~ Sandra Rose |
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Krait SRD
Connection Service Reconnaissance Department - Volume 1 by Shirley Myles Gleghorn |
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Strike Back Modelling the B-24 Liberator in RAAF Service by Bob Livingstone |
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The Submarine
Hunters Nos. 66, 67, 71, 73 and 107 Squadrons RAAF by John Lever |
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Moreton Bay,
Queensland in World War II by Ron Donald |
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The Bomber
Reef War in the Pacific History and Underwater Exploration of a B-25 Mitchell bomber in New Guinea 1943 by Walt Deas |
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A Basis for
Victory The Allied Geographical Section 1942 - 1947 by Reuben R.E. Bowd |
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Spies for Nimitz Joint Military Intelligence in the Pacific War by Jeffrey M. Moore |
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Secret War in the Pacific The Story of Commander Charles "Chick" Parsons |
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R.A.A.F. Air
Ambulance and Medical Air Evacuation Units 1940 - 1946 By John Lever |
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HMAS Sydney II and Operation Fish 1941 by James H. Eagles edited by Anne R. Eagles |
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Coorparoo Blues Fictionalises the murder of 2 negro soldiers by US MP's by g.s. manson |
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Allied Air Transport
Operations South West Pacific Area in WWII Volume One Development of Air Transport 1903-1943 by Robert H. Kelly |
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Savage Wilderness The epic outback search for the crew of Little Eva by Barry Ralph |
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Hatching an Air Force 2 SFTS, 5 SFTS, 1 BFTS Uranquinty and Wagga Wagga by Peter Ilbery |
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Silent Victory Breaking the Japanese Air-blockade between Australia and Europe by Arthur Leebold |
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Seek and Strike 75 Squadron RAAF 1942 - 2002 by David J. Wilson |
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Pappy Gunn By Nathaniel Gunn New 2010 Edition |
 The Book |
Voice from the
Stars, A Pathfinders Story By Tom Scotland, DFC The Book |
 The CD-Rom |
Voice from the
Stars, A Pathfinders Photos By Tom Scotland, DFC The CD-Rom |
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“G for GEORGE” – Commemorative
Gathering, Canberra, 2 – 6 December 2003 Available on VHS Video or DVD |
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Little Wolf at
Leyte The Story of the Heroic USS Samuel B. Roberts, DE413 in the Battle of Leyte Gulf during World War II By J. Henry Doscher, Jr., Captain, USNR, (Ret.) |
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Fairey Battle in
the R.A.A.F. By John Lever |
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Subchaser in the South
Pacific A Saga of the USS SC-761 during World War II By J. Henry Doscher, Jr., Captain, USNR, (Ret.) |
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Mackay's Flying Fortress Remembering Australia's Worst Aviation Disaster in World War Two by Robert S. Cutler |
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Flight of the Halifax The Biography of Captain G.N. Wikner Australian Pioneer Aviator Complied by Norman Mitchell |
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Splinter Fleet The Wooden Subchasers of World War II By Theodore R. Treadwell |
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"Tracing
the Historical Significance of the Wacol Army Camp to the City of Brisbane" |
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The Flying
Inventor The autobiography of an RAAF Ground Engineer, inventor and later, pilot By Alan Mitchell |
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World War II B-24 "Snoopers" Low Level Anti-shipping Radar Night Bombers in the Pacific Theater By Stephen M. Perrone |
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The
Grim Reapers |
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They Rest in
Peace, 1939-1945, Vol. 1" By the Bundaberg Genealogical Association Inc. |
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They Rest in Peace,
1939-1945, Vol. 2" By the Bundaberg Genealogical Association Inc. |
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Books from John Lever Books on RAAF Operational Training Units, etc |
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"86
Squadron 1943-45 |
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"They Passed This Way" By Barry Ralph The story of the Allied invasion of Australia during WW2 |
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Aerothentic Publications Specialist Publications on the Aviation War in the Pacific |
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Books from the War
Book Shop The Mail-Order Military Specialists |
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The Eavesdroppers |
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Fortress Brisbane A guide to historic fixed defence sites of Brisbane and the Moreton Bay Islands By D.W. Spethman and R.G. Miller |
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A Town Called Onslow An airman's WW2 experience by Antonio Cafarella |
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Corunna Downs - The Invisible WW2 Airfield An airman's story of WW2 experiences not far from Marble Bay by Antonio Cafarella |
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My Broome An Airman's tale of his war time experience in Broome, Western Australia by Antonio Cafarella |
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G'day Mate, 'av ya 'erd this one? A historical collection of stories, poems, cartoons, photos etc from ex-service men and women Australia wide from recent wars by Antonio Cafarella |
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Under the Southern Cross The B-24 Liberator in the South Pacific by Bob Livingstone |
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The Fourth Ally The Dutch forces in Australia during WW2 by Doug Hurst |
| Sigsaly - The Green Hornet |
Sigsaly - The Green Hornet By Donald Mehl |
OTHER MILITARY BOOKS, DVDS AND
CD-RS COVERING WW2
OUTSIDE OF THE SOUTH WEST PACIFIC AREA
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OPS' Victory at All Costs On Operations over Hitler's Reich with The Crews of Bomber Command by Andrew R. B. Simpson |
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Passed by Censor Letters from the War by Major John W Calder |
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Codeword Dictionary A Compilation of Military and Law Enforcement Codewords from 1904 to Present by Paul Adkins |
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Wrecks & Relics The Biennial Survey of Preserved, Instructional and Derelict Airframes in the UK and Ireland 14th Edition by Ken Ellis |
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Holidaying on the Continent The Journey of an RAAF Volunteer: 1940-45 460 RAAF Squadron by Richard Munro |
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Books on 460 Squadron RAAF |
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Supreme Sacrifices
of the Great War By the Bundaberg Genealogical Association Inc. |
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"Cobras over the Tundra" by Everett A. Long and Ivan Y. Neganblya |
OTHER BOOKS, DVDS AND CD-RS OF INTEREST
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The Flying Kangaroo by Jim Eames |
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A Woman's War A mother's home-front battle By Jacqueline & John Dinan |
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Miracle of the
Mountains Bernard O'Reilly and the Stinson Airliner crash (DVD VIDEO |
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This page first produced 9 May 2001
This page last updated 23 April 2019
