[Milsurplus] New book on B-24 Liberators in Australia available
Dave
davprin1 at optusnet.com.au
Thu Sep 2 18:31:55 EDT 2010
G'day all,
I have just received a copy of a book called Australia's
Liberators and it is a very good read. If anyone is
interested, please contact me off list and I will forward
your enquiry to the author, Charles Darby.
Cheers
Dave
nirpvad at yahoo.com
/Here is some info from the author on the book's contents:-
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 American squadrons
were assigned to the control of a foreign power in a 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 radar and communications intercept receivers,
panadapters, 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/
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