Download or read book The Distinguished Flying Cross to Australians written by Michael Maton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Halfway to Hell written by Laurie Woods and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The content of this book are based on personal interviews, personal service stories among my mates, members of the Royal Australian Air Force, and with historic records of airmen who were mainly trained in the Empire Air Training scheme. The scheme was set up to keep up a supply of trained aircrew to replace the immense numbers who were giving their lives. This book also tells of Australians among the heroic crews of Bomber Command and of their amazing courage and the record of achievement that is recorded forever in this history of Australian courage. It tells in detail the high price paid by aircrews to achieve victory, the loss of comrades and the extreme hazards faced day after day, which called for great courage and effort that in the end stole their youth.
Download or read book Audacity written by Carlie Walker and published by ATOM. This book was released on with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audacity is the second book in the Century of Service series developed jointly by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the Australian War Memorial. It highlights the bravery of Australian service personnel in conflicts from the Boer War to Afghanistan. This eBook features exclusive content including two additional stories, an interview with Victoria Cross for Australia recipient Corporal Daniel Keighran VC, original medal citations, interactive timelines and artwork and medal galleries. Readers can also test their knowledge by completing a multiple choice quiz or a Guess the Word game.
Download or read book The Distinguished Flying Cross Society written by Randy W. Baumgardner and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Who Proudly Served written by Peter Francis Kenny and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Australia is only a young country in comparison to other nations, it can hold its head up high and proudly proclaim that it is one of the giants in this world of toil and trouble in which we live. When the odds are stacked against Australians, they dont turn and run; instead, they stand and fight and overcome the obstacles that face them. The contents of this volume are a tribute to all the men and women of this proud and great country, who have come from all walks of life to give of their time, and unfortunately, some have even given their lives, to defend this great land and keep it free. There have been politicians, doctors, nurses, police officers, average everyday citizens, musicians, actors, artists, farmers, graziers, authors, sportsmen and women, journalists, and a host of others who have taken up the cause for their country and the monarchy, serving from the Crimean to the war in Vietnam and beyond. Their heroic deeds and their many sacrifices have ensured that todays generation can rest easier, proud in the knowledge that these servicemen and women have paved the way for our freedom. Now they come together once again as one big family to shed an insight on their achievements so that you can fully understand and appreciate what they have and had experienced. I dedicate this work to the memory of all those who have made the supreme sacrifice in order that we may live in peace and prosperity and also to the families of those who did not return. The book is not a glorification of war but a glorification of the individual and his or her actions and deeds.
Download or read book Back from Hell written by Laurie Woods and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adrenaline that pumps through the veins of men flying Lancaster bombers over Germany while ack-ack explodes around them is only matched by the gut-wrenching nervousness in their stomach. “Will I be the next statistic?” Shortly after the war the memories keep flooding back through nightmares that are distorted from the reality but even more frightening. You will live the reality of Laurie’s war and the struggles with the acceptance by the Australian community of a man who defended Australia from Europe. In addition you will read of a man, like many others, married too quickly prior to World War II and came home to difficult relationships. Will this war hero find peace?
Download or read book Fly West written by Ivan Southall and published by Atheneum. This book was released on 1975 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of a rookie Australian Air Force squadron stationed in England during World War II.
Download or read book Commonwealth Of Australia Gazette written by Australia and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No 40 1954 written by and published by Aust. Bureau of Statistics. This book was released on with total page 1326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gallantry Medals Decorations of the World written by John Clarke and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2000-09-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is acknowledged as the only work dealing exclusively with the identification and description of international gallantry awards, past and present. The multitude of illustrations allows the reader to readily identify those awards most likely to be encountered. The work embraces forty-three countries and describes 270 decorations together with their various classes. A ten page ribbon chart shows 216 different world gallantry ribbons all in full colour.
Download or read book Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No 37 1946 and 1947 written by and published by Aust. Bureau of Statistics. This book was released on with total page 1371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Kind of Hero written by John R. Nunn and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is based on the Air Force life of Edward L. J. Anderson (known as Ted), an Australian pilot who flew for the R.A.F and R.A.A.F. during World War II. Ted enlisted on 5th April, 1940 aged nineteen and seved to the end of the war in 1945. He rose to the rank of Flight Lieutenant, was regarded as an Australian Air Ace and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal (DFM) and the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) for his heroic deeds.
Download or read book 75 Years Aloft Royal Australian Air Force Air Training Corps Australian Air Force Cadets 1941 2016 written by Matthew Glozier and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 19 written by Melanie Nolan and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies of individuals who died between 1991 and 1995. The first of two volumes for the 1990s, it presents a colourful montage of late twentieth-century Australian life, containing the biographies of significant and representative Australians. The volume is still in the shadow of World War II with servicemen and women who enlisted young appearing, but these influences are dimming and there are now increasing numbers of non-white, non-male, non-privileged and non-straight subjects. The 680 individuals recorded in volume 19 of the ADB include Wiradjuri midwife and Ngunnawal Elder Violet Bulger; Aboriginal rights activist, poet, playwright and artist Kevin Gilbert; and Torres Strait Islander community leader and land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo. HIV/AIDS child activists Tony Lovegrove and Eve Van Grafhorst have entries, as does conductor Stuart Challender, ‘the first Australian celebrity to go public’ about his HIV/AIDS condition in 1991. The arts are, as always, well-represented, including writers Frank Hardy, Mary Durack and Nene Gare, actors Frank Thring and Leonard Teale and arts patron Ian Potter. We are beginning to see the effects of the steep rise in postwar immigration flow through to the ADB. Artist Joseph Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski was born in Poland. Pilar Moreno de Otaegui, co-founded the Spanish Club of Sydney. Chinese restaurateur and community leader Ming Poon (Dick) Low migrated to Victoria in 1953. Often we have a dearth of information about the domestic lives of our subjects; politician Olive Zakharov, however, bravely disclosed at the Victorian launch of the federal government’s campaign to Stop Violence Against Women in 1993 that she was a survivor of domestic violence in her second marriage. Take a dip into the many fascinating lives of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Download or read book Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No 36 1944 and 1945 written by and published by Aust. Bureau of Statistics. This book was released on with total page 1239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No 41 1955 written by and published by Aust. Bureau of Statistics. This book was released on with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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