[ARC5] Australia's Liberators

[J. Forster]

I'm posting this to several lists, FWIW. Please do not ask me about it. I
know nothing more.

Best,

-John

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Australia's Liberators

B-24 Operations from Australia
by Charles Darby

Published by Red Roo Models, Melbourne, Australia, 2010

This book is full of historical information and photographs covering B-24
Liberator operations during WWII by USAAF and RAAF units based in
Australia or directly supported by Australia.

The first two parts of this book cover the Australian operations of the US
Army Air Corps 90th and 380th Bomb Groups, the first-ever occasion on
which front-line American squadrons were assigned to the operational
control of a foreign power in a major war situation, and the RAAF
Liberators of 7 OTU, the six operational bomber squadrons of 82 and 85
(Bomber) Wings in action over the East Indies through to the Philippines,
the highly-classified operations of 200 (Special Duties) Flight, and the
formation of 201 (Electronic Countermeasures) Flight.

The third part evaluates the role of the Australian-supported B-24s in
electronic warfare, including photos of WW2 radar and communications
intercept receivers, panoramic adapters, pulse analysers, data recorders,
jammers, beacon interrogators, DME, IFF, metric and microwave ASV search
and bombing systems, and a radar homing system peculiar to the war in the
Pacific.  Much of this work involved Section 22, a top-secret
multi-national unit based in Brisbane in which some of the most capable
servicemen in the Allied forces were gathered to investigate Japanese
radar systems.  Such was the importance accorded to this work that even
such junior ranks as an RAAF Flight Sergeant or a Royal New Zealand Navy
Able Seaman was, if assigned to Section 22, only three reporting steps
away from the Allied Supreme Commander General George Marshall in
Washington – surely one of the shortest chains of command in the war.
Appendices expand on matters raised in the text, and also contain the
Aircraft Service Histories for all RAAF Liberators.

Soft Cover, 291 mm x 198 mm (A4), 224 pages, colour profiles, numerous
photos, 9 Appendices

To purchase copies, please contact the author:-  <mommut at internode.on.net>

 A$35 as-published (approx US$32 as at 3 Sept. 2010)
 A$40 autographed by the author. (approx US$36 as at 3 Sept. 2010)
 A$45 personally inscribed as requested by purchaser. (approx US$41 as at
3 Sept. 2010)

Copies can be supplied from Australia or New Zealand, and payment is
accepted via Paypal, by direct credit into Australian, New Zealand or US
bank accounts, or cash. Please allow an additional A$2 for packaging in an
official bubble-wrap padded-bag.

Packaged weight of the book is 780 grams. Postage rates to your address
are available on-line from Australia Post or New Zealand Post.

For US customers, airmail postage to the USA (plus the padded bag) is
US$27.50.  Thus the above three basic price options (in total, inclusive
of packaging and airmail postage to a US address) are approximately
US$59.50, US$63.50 and US$68.50 respectively.  (These costs are based on
the currency exchange rates and postage rates applicable as at 3rdt
September 2010, and may change at any time).

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