| Main Title: |
Holidaying on the continent : the journey of an RAAF volunteer : 1940-1945, 460 Squadron / Richard Munro. |
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| Author: |
Munro, Richard.
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| Year: |
2009 |
| Collation: |
xviii, 252 p. : ill., maps, ports., facsims., hbk ; 26 cm. |
| Summary: |
Bomber command--460 Squadron's impact on WWII--Like father, like son--Munro family--Into uniform and into the skies--To England--England--Operational training unit--Avro Lancaster--1662 conversion unit--460 Squadron--Battle of Berlin--Enemy territory--Dead or alive?--Dulag Luft--Stalag IVB--Escaping the Russians--Operation 'Exodus'--Back in the Old Dart--Going home--Jobs and the future.
Jim Munro joined the RAAF to be a pilot but, like many others he did not make the correct 'grade' and instead, he became a bomb aimer. In the UK, he was sent to 460 RAAF Squadron flying Lancasters and then began the night raids over German-occupied Europe began. Over the following months, Jim and the crew bombed the Peenemunde rocket works. Turin in Italy, Cologne. Hamburg and finally Berlin.
Warfare and defence.
Australian. |
| Subject: |
Munro, James Clarence, 1921-1963.
Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
Squadron 460
Flight crew
Biography
World War, 1939-1945
Military history
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| ISBN: |
9780980567427 |
| Notes: |
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-233) and indexes.
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