| Wings
of the Dawning; The Battle for the Indian Ocean 1939-1945. by Arthur Banks.
The Malvern Publishing Company Ltd; ISBN: 0947993746 |
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This
book is a memoir written by a participant in that struggle, and is laced
with great stories he experienced, humor, personal experiences of participants
both Allied and Axis, and also has some great cartoons drawn by the author
during his tour of duty with a Fleet Air Arm Catalina Squadron.
The shipping in
the Indian Ocean during WWII was hotly contested by Axis surface and submarine
units. The RAF and Royal Navy had to devise a way to protect that vital
shipping and, if possible, preempt attack. One answer was the PBT Catalina,
"Old Dumbo" ubiquitous flying boat which, along with the Short Sunderland,
patrolled the skies above the Indian Ocean as if it were their private
pond.
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| Hardcover
- 416 pages New Edition (June 1998) |
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| Bloody
Shambles : The Drift to War to the Fall of Singapore. Vol. 1. By Christopher
Shores, Brian Cull (Contributor), Yasuho Isawa (Contributor), Grub Street;
ISBN: 094881750X £23.38. RRP: |
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This
is the story of the Allied air campaign across Singapore, Malaya, Burma,
Ceylon and the Philippines during World War II. It documents the Allied
underestimation of Japanese ability, which led to the destruction of 50%
of the British bomber force in two days.
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| Hardcover
- 416 pages (18 May, 1992) |
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| Bloody
Shambles : The Defense of Sumatra to the Fall of Burma Vol. 2 . By
Christopher Shores, Brian Cull, Yasuho Izawa (Contributor), Yashuo Izawa,
Grub Street; ISBN:0948817674. £33.86 RRP: |
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This
is the story of the Allied air campaign across Australia, Sumatra, Java,
the Philippines, Burma and Ceylon during World War II. It documents the
Allied underestimation of Japanese ability, and ends with the Japanese
at the extremities of their advance.
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| Hardcover
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| Eyes
for the Phoenix. Allied Aerial Photo-Reconnaissance Operations in
South-East Asia 1942-1945. By Geoffrey J Thomas. Hikoki Publications; ISBN:
0951989944. Our Price: £37.28 RRP: |
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This
volume is immediately recognisable as being from Hikoki; the cover dust
wrapper, which features a colour side
view of a Royal
Navy Hellcat with small 'India Command' blue/white roundels is discreetly
done. The story of aerial photo-reconnaissance over Europe and the Mediterranean
from bases in the United Kingdom is well known. Perhaps even more important
in terms of strategy (and mostly unrecorded) was the job of the photographic
squadrons of the Royal Navy fleet Air Arm, the RAF and Commonwealth units
in the Far East; to discover Japanese movements and intentions within a
vast area, 2,000 miles across, within which virtually no other intelligence
could otherwise be obtained. Flying through appalling weather conditions
over some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world, against an implacable
enemy, often in aircraft unsuited to the task and frequently unarmed, the
crews were, until now, the forgotten eyes of the 'Forgotten Army'.
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| Hardcover
- 272 pages 1 ED (1 November, 1999) |
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