AUSTRALIAN MILITARY –

In 1941, Dan Conway joined the RAAF and trained as a pilot at Pearce, Cunderdin and Geraldton in Western Australia. Further training in England led him to join 467 RAF Squadron as captain of a Lancaster bomber in the Battle of Berlin in the winter of 1943/44. After WWII, Dan and his family lived equally in Darwin and Alice Springs. Cyclone Tracy in Darwin in 1974 left Dan with a heightened appreciation of nature’s devastating power compared with bombing. In this book, Dan covers the hazards arising from natural and enemy action, as well as the stratagems and tactics used by both sides during the air war of World War II. He has rigidly kept to his aim of telling what it was really like flying in Bomber Command.

pp. 248 First Edition #140826 (Prev ownership label)