Royal Australian Air Force, 1939-1942 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Formation of the Royal Australian Air Force

Salmond to Ellington

Demand versus capacity

The Empire plan: doctrines and decisions

The new command

Sea lane protection and aircraft production

The Malay barrier

American preparations

Degrees of readiness

Japan's seven-point assault

The price of hesitation

"Hours not days"

The barrier weakens

Australia becomes a base

Token resistance

Malaya convoys: January 1942

Withdrawal from Singapore

The fall of Rabaul

Ambon and after

On Sumatra

Retreat from Burma

Loss of Timor and Java

Assault on New Guinea

Command and supply

The China-Burma-India theatre

Coral Sea and Midway

"No second front"

Problems of command

Kokoda and Milne Bay

Advance to Buna

Gona, Buna, Sanananda

Wau and the Bismarck Sea

Appendices: 1. Military aviation 1909-1914

2. The Air Force List-1925

3. R.A.A.F. in the Darwin Raids

4. Australian, British, American and Japanese aircraft

5. Abbreviations