Australian Scholarly Publishing z • z • Avonmore Books Guy Griffiths The Life & Times of an Australian Admiral Peter Jones $40 • Paperback • 312 pages • 6x9 Currently Available • BIO008000 978-1-92-245468-3
Guy Griffiths: The Life & Times of an Australian Admiral is the authorized biography of Rear Admiral Guy Griffiths AO, DSO, DSC, RAN. In his long career in the Royal Australian Navy, Guy Griffiths participated in its emergence from Depression-era stricture, pre-World War II, to its reinvention in the 1950s and 60s as a capable middle-power force centered on aircraft carriers in the missile age. In this time, he personally experienced the RAN’s darkest days in the face of the Japanese onslaught and its finest hour in the Philippines Campaign of World War II, and its close involvements in the Korean War and then the Vietnam War. He witnessed the realities of war in positions of increasing responsibility.
South Pacific Air War Volume 5 - Crisis in Papua September – December 1942 Michael Claringbould Peter Ingman $48.95 • Paperback • 180 pages 6.93x9.84 • April 2022 • HIS027140 978-0-64-892629-0
Volume Five of this series chronicles aerial warfare primarily in the New Guinea theater in the critical period between September and December 1942. It can be read alone or as a continuation of the previous four volumes which span the first nine months of the Pacific War. By early September the strategic picture in the theater had changed markedly within just six weeks. From their new Buna beachhead, the Japanese Army commenced a Papuan mountain campaign which threatened the Allied bastion of Port Moresby. Meanwhile the battle for Guadalcanal was raging, with the outcome of the wider Pacific War in the balance. Never before has this campaign been chronicled in such detail, with Allied and Japanese accounts matched together for a truly factual account of the conflict.
Pacific Profiles
Pacific Profiles
Volume 6 - Allied Fighters: Bell P-39 & P-400 Airacobra South & Southwest Pacific 1942-1944
Volume 7 - Allied Transports: Douglas C-47 series South & Southwest Pacific 1942-1945
Michael Claringbould
Michael Claringbould
$42.95 • Paperback • 120 pages 6.93x9.84 • April 2022 • HIS027140 978-0-64-524690-2
$42.95 • Paperback • 120 pages 6.93x9.84 • February 2022 HIS027140 • 978-0-64-524691-9
The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII profiles of aircraft which served in the South Pacific theater. Volume Six covers a dozen USAAF Fifth and Thirteenth Air Force squadrons which operated the Bell P-39 and P-400 Airacobra from April 1942 until March 1944. They were used in a variety of roles including as fighters, dive-bombers, and strafers. The wide-ranging colorful heraldry and nose art of Fifth Air Force Airacobras is partly explained by the frequent trading of particular airframes between units. Until now there has been a paucity of information about the markings of Thirteenth Air Force Airacobras, and this volume fills much of this wide gap. The first and last Airacobras lost in the theater are illustrated, along with rare markings of a night fighter and a P-39 used by Fifth Fighter Command. This volume includes the early P-400s through to the P-39D/F/Ks and then the late model P-39N/Qs. The development of markings for each squadron is explained, together with brief squadron histories accompanied with supporting photos.
The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII profiles of aircraft which served in the South Pacific theater. Volume Seven covers the Douglas C-47, including numerous derivatives such as the C-53, R4D, and DC-3. This was the most universal aircraft type to appear in the South Pacific and was deployed from day one to the cessation of hostilities. It was utilized by every military organization including eighteen Fifth and Thirteenth Air Force USAAF squadrons, and also by the USN, USMC, RAAF, RNZAF, RAF, and Dutch Air Force. This volume illustrates the development of unit markings from the first commandeered DC-3 airliners in Australia through to the RNZAF C-47s used in the last days of the Pacific War in the Solomons. The profiles are accompanied by unit histories and photos. A wide range of reference material has been consulted including photos, color movies, official records, diaries, and information from wreck sites.
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