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Wartime RNZAF Related Books
The following books are all about, or contain content about, the wartime RNZAF. Though I have not had the opportunity to read all of them, I have read most. Where possible I shall write a short review and give it a recommendation rating. And I am also adding links to other people's sites about the books and/or the authors. So roll your cursor over the titles to link to other pages with further information
The content on this page will continue to expand as time allows more reviews and books to be added.
Too Young To Die The Story of a New Zealand fighter pilot in the Pacific War
by Bryan CoxThis book is one of the most famous accounts by an RNZAF pilot who served in the Pacific Theatre of War. Bryan tells the ingrossing story of his training right through to his service in the islands. The book includes an amazing eyewitness account of the worst single day in RNZAF history, when a flight of Corsairs in which Bryan was one of the pilots ran into bad weather and all but two were lost. The book continues into peacetime when he went as part of 14 Squadron to Japan as part of the Allied occupational forces. A thoroughly good read, and laced with loads of photos and drawings, this is an excellent book. Read More Here
290 pages, Softcover, Published by Century Hutcheson in 1987
ISBN 0 09 172741 3
Cats Only Have Nine Lives
by Bryan CoxSee "Wings Over Cambridge" full review here
Nine Lives
by Alan Deere
This is the 1959 autobiography of one of New Zealand's most famous pilots, Alan Deere. A veteran of the Battle of Britain, Al Deere rose through the ranks in the RAF and continued to serve well into the decades after the war. This has been republished several times and so comes in many printing forms.For more details of this book see here
Spitfire Strikes
by Johnnie Houlton
The autobiography of the late Johnny Houlton, this is a great read that follows his experiences through training, fighting with Spitfires on Malta during the seige, and later his time with 485 (NZ) Squadron. Johnny was the first Allied pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft over the D Day beaches. He was flying Spitfire Mk IX ML407, his personal plane which was coded OU-V. That aircraft is still active today and is now a two-seater, having been converted by the Irish Air Corps. When the aircraft was restored by the late Nick Grace, Johnny reacquainted himself with OU-V. Later on the 6th of June 1994 he flew the Spitfire with Carolyn Grace over the Normany beaches to commemorate his feat fifty years before.The book is highly recommended. Johnny experiences in both Malta and the North European campaign are fascinating. See More Here
Africa Experience: The Story of an RNZAF Ferry Pilot
by Trevor Howells
details hopefully coming soon
Green Kiwi Versus German Eagle
by J. Norby King
This is a really good account of the war of Norby King, who trained in the RNZAF, and went to Britain where he became a Hurricane pilot. He flew Hurricanes, and then Spitfires, in the North African campaign, and up into Italy, and then after a spell as an instructor, he returned to Spitfires with 485 (NZ) Sqn in time for the D Day invasion.I found the book was easy to read and an interesting tale, which often reminded me of other books in the same vane - particularly Byran Young's Beckoning Skies, although the latter is a bit more detailed in its storytelling and photos. Though Norby missed out on a Hurricane raid on Dieppe, he was in the thick of things on D Day, and he flew alongside the more famous Johnnie Houlton, whom he'd also trained with.
All in all a great read at a great price.
251 Pages, Softcover, Published by the author in 1991. Republished 2003.
ISBN 0-473-01210-3This book is still available for $15.00 from the author at this address:
J.N. King
28B Ranch Road
Mount Maunganui
Bay of Plenty
NEW ZEALAND
Popeye Lucas Queenstown
by Fred J. Lucas
This is an autobiography by one of the RNZAF's most famous wartime pilots. Sadly Lucas did not go into a great amount of detail with anything because he'd lead such a long and varied career in aviation, both military and civil, and he had to try to fit it all in. This has now been made up for by his widow who wrote Popeye's War
No. 487 Squadron RNZAF
No. 1 Squadron RNZAF
No. 40 Squadron RNZAF
Kittyhawks and Coconuts
by Keith Mulligan
For details of this book see the RNZRSA review herePublished by the author and available from
117 Hillcrest Road North, Raumati Beach, 6010
E-mail keith.mulligan@paradise.net.nz
Price $26.00 plus $2.50 p&p
Wartime Memories Of The RNZAF
by Keith and Nona MorrisThis book is interesting in that it is the autobiography of two people, husband and wife Keith and Nona Morris. Both served in the Air Force, Keith as a pilot and Nona as a WAAF.
The book is in two parts, Keith's memories are recorded in the first part, and then Nona writes her larger section in the second part of the book. As Keith died the year before this book was published, I get the sense his story was unfinished, but this is made up wonderfully by Nona's contribution.
In Keith's section, he tells about his time training as a pilot in Canada with the Empire Air Training Scheme. Nona tells about her life on a remote farm before the war and afetr the outbreak of conflict. She goes onto her joining the WAAF at Christchurch, and her vearious postings around Harewood, Wigram, Cashmere and Norwood, before moving north to New Plymouth. This is an amazing insight into not only the life of a WAAF at war, doing a very important job, but also what the various bases were like. She describes the stations and the social life in detail, as well as the work she did in various roles.
The book is a real insight into the workings of two stations little heard of today, the air training staion at Norwood, and the Southern Group Headquarters at RNZAF Cashmere.
There are a lot of interesting and original photos in this book too, and I highly recommend this as a great read and an important piece of history recorded..
Self published by Nona Morris (Pukekohe, 1993). The book is a paperback and features 192 pages, with photos throughout.
ISBN 0-473-01970-1
Tiger Moths and Butterflies
With The Air Force in War and Peace
by Peter NormanThis book is a great read about the schooling and training of an RNZAF pilot, Peter Norman. The theme may sound familiar but this time it comes from a slightly different angle than most stories told because he came from a well off family, he went to Christs College, and he had family in the ranks of business and the RAF who were able to pull a few strings when he needed it. But don't be put off, Peter did not have an easy war. In this account writes candidly about his RNZAF days, his training in New Zealand and Canada, and his operational flying in the Pacific in Corsairs.
This book is the third in a trilogy by Peter Norman, the first two being The Meat In The Sandwich (1998) and A Silent Soldier (2002).
Easy to read and more than adequately complimented with personal photos, Butterflies and Tiger moths is well worth tracking down - and i just love the title too!
136 Pages, Softcover, Published by Hazard Press , PO Box 2151, Christchurch, NZ, in 2003.
ISBN 0-473-01210-3
Kiwi Spitfire Ace
by Flight Lieutenant Jack Rae DFC & bar. RNZAF
This book has been reviewed here as:
"A Gripping World War II Story of Action, Captivity & Freedom. Jack Rae gained his wings in New Zealand in 1940 and was posted to Britain as a Sergeant Pilot. He converted to Spitfires in early 1941, becoming an 'ace' and completing more than 50 operational sorties with 485 (NZ) Squadron.
He was subsequently posted to Malta as part of a group of fighter pilots reinforcing the island's defenders. In Malta, Rae served with the famous 'Screwball' Beurling, Buck McNair, Ray Hesslyn, 'Laddie' Lucas and 'Jumbo' Gracie among others. At the height of the Luftwaffe's all-out onslaught designed to neutralise the island in preparation for invasion, more than 90% of the Squadron's aircraft were lost to the Luftwaffe. Rae was shot down and wounded, although he recovered to fly once more.
Having completed his tour of duty on the island, he was posted back to Britain joining his Squadron at the renowned Biggin Hill air base. The same day as he was promoted to Flight Commander he was forced to crash-land his aircraft in France due to engine failure. He was captured and spent the next 20 months in prisoner-of-war camps. Most of this time was spent in Stalag Luft III, famous for the 'great escape' in which 50 RAF officers were shot by the Gestapo after they were recaptured.
Perhaps fortunately, he lost his chance to take part in this escape as he was in solitary confinement for a previous failed solo attempt. During the bitterly cold winter of 1944-45, Rae was forced to march across Germany, fleeing from advancing Russian troops, an ordeal that killed many prisoners and guards. He managed to escape from one temporary camp but became so hungry that after a week he broke back into the camp again. He was finally freed from a camp near Bremen by advancing British troops. He ended his war service as a Flight Lieutenant having been awarded the DEC and Bar.
Jack Rae's account of his fighter pilot days makes compelling reading. Air war adventures have seldom een told with such conviction. 2002 new hard bound in dust jacket, 6x9, 183 pages, illus, appendice, index. "
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The Time Of My Life
by James SandersThe autobiography of James Sanders, who became a bomber pilot in the RNZAF and served in Coastal Command in the European and Middle East campaigns.
A prolific writer, this is I believe the first of his RNZAF related books, and was followed up later by Of Wind and Water : A Kiwi Pilot in Coastal Command and A Long Patrol: an Illustrated History of No. 1 Squadron, RNZAF 1930-1984 .
I have a copy of this book but have not yet read it, so a review shall eventually come to this sight
180 Pages, Hardback, Published by Minerva in 1967.
Typhoon Pilot
by Desmond Scott DSO, OBE, DFC and Bar
See More HerePublished several time, (1982, 1987, 1988 and 1991) but my copy's details are:
168 Pages, Softcover, Published by Arrow 1991
ISBN 0-09-950700-5
One More Hour
by Desmond Scott
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Tempest Pilot
by C.J. (Jimmy) Sheddan and Norman Franks
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Blue Arena
by Bob Spurdle DFC & BarThis is an excellent autobiography by New Zealander Bob Spurdle, who first flew Spitfires with No. 74 Squadron, RAF under 'Sailor ' Malan from Biggin Hill during the Battle of Britain. Following the Battle he went to No. 91 Squadron, again flying Spitfires, carrying out anti-shipping strikes off the French coast.
He then embarked on a Merchant Navy ship, to become a Hurricane pilot with a catapult unit. After a period back with No. 91 Sqn, Bob later transferred back to New Zealand, and consequently he flew Kittyhawks in the Solomon Islands campaign.
Returning to the UK he assumed command of No. 80 Squadron, flying Tempests over France 1944-45. Late in the war he was assigned to British 6th Airborne division and flew gliders into Germany, before joining the 11th Airborne division as air observer in a tank.
Published in 1986, reprinted 1995. Hardback
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From Bunnies to Beaufighters
by Donald Tunnicliffe
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Luck and a Lancaster
by Harry Yates
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Beckoning Skies
by Bryan Young
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The Dangerous Sea and Sky
by Douglas Young
Published by Avon Books (London, 1994)
Card covers, 248pp.
Young tells of his war time experiences in the RAF Volunteer Reserve, and as a navigator with 489 RNZAF torpedo bomber squadron.
The Maltese Spitfire
Subtitled "One Pilot, One Plane - Find Enemy Forces On Land and Sea. This is the autobiography of one of World War Two's great Spitfire pilots. It is an unusual story because his greatest hour was not flying a fighter, but that rarer mark of aircraft painted a darker shade of blue - a reconnaissance PR Mk IV. The story starts in the author's native New Zealand and his early flying days with the RNZAF. It then moves through Operational Training in Canada and the UK at the outbreak of war and a first posting to 66 Squadron RAF in 1941. It was not by design that Harry found himself flying in a crack fighter squadron, for he really wanted to fly bombers, but the Air Ministry worked in curious ways in those early wartime days. In his introduction to the book, Wg Cdr 'Laddie' Lucas, at that time flying with 66 Squadron, writes that Harry was '...an utterly dependable, constant and determined New Zealander with whom just a twinkle of humour was never far away.' However, when a volunteer was sought for photoreconnaissance flying Harry leapt at the chance. Again 'Laddie' Lucas writes '...we didn't want him to go ... the man had endeared himself to us.' Harry flew his Spitfire to Malta, Britain's lone garrison set in the Mediterranean, and his arrival in 1942 represented our sole means of searching for the Italian fleet and other enemy movements within the area bounded by Benghazi and Libya to the south, Tunisia to the west, Sardinia and Rome to the north and Navarino to the east. It is an amazing story of bravery and determination. Eventually his luck ran out and after baling out over the sea he was captured and spent the remaining years of the war in POW camps in Italy and Germany . Hardbound, 6 1/4x9 ½", 176 pages, b&w illustrations. Book is new, copyright and published in 1997
The Surrogate Southpaw
by Keith Smith
Self-published and available from the author: 1 Foster Terrace, Napier. Price: $25.
See a review on the RNZRSA site here
A Noble Chance - One Pilot's Life
by Captain Maurice McGreal
The life of a New Zealand aircrew member in wartime Britain, involved in Coastal Command operations. The book also covers the early days of TEAL postwar.
Privately published. Wellington, 1994. Card cover. 200 pages
See more on this book here
A Fistful of Sparks
by the late Wing Commander Alfred George Edward (Butch) Pugh
Self-published by A.G.E. Pugh at Takapuna
The autobiography of an RNZAF Wireless Operator/ Air Gunner in No. 75 (NZ) Squadron during WWII and later in the postwar Berlin AirliftPossibly obtainable from the author's estate:
1/50 Taharoto Road , Takapuna, Auckland
ISBN 0908815859 (paperback)
269 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
An Airman's Odyssey
by the late Wing Commander Alfred George Edward (Butch) Pugh
Self-published by A.G.E. Pugh at Takapuna
The second autobiography covering later years as a Signals Officer in the postwar RNZAF, where 'Butch' Pugh beame one of the well known figures of the RNZAFObtainable from the author's estate:
1/50 Taharoto Road , Takapuna, Auckland for NZ$26:00 incl. p&p in NZ
ISBN 0473082055 (paperback)Read the RNZRSA website review here
Into The Sun
By Claude Thompson
Claude Thompson was an RNZAF pilot in the Second World War. From the 8th ofMarch 1942 to about the 8th of September 1945 he was held in Java and Singapore as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese Imperial Army.During his captivity, he and thousands of others were subjected to harsh beatings and suffered severe malnutrition and other illnesses. At the same time he was forced to work doing hard labour, including the construction of a railway line and an aerodrome.
ISBN 0-9583498-1-9
Against the Tide – The autobiographical Account of a Professional Outsider
By Leslie C Woods
From fisherman's son in New Zealand to Head of Mathematical Institute at Oxford University … ran away from home to join RNZAF, later became fighter pilot in the Pacific.. he writes Frankly both about his successes and failures and finishes with an account of his taking up gliding at the age of 74!
319 pages, includes couple of photographs.
Institute of Physics 2000. Hardback with d/j
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Squadron leader Lewis Brandon DSO, DFC
Book Description: William Kimber. (Subject: Aviation - General) His career before the war was that of a film extra and star double, he received his call up papers for the RAF in January, 1941, trained as a Navigator and with his pilot Wing Commander James Ben son became one of the most successful night fighter partnerships in Beaufig hters (141 Squadron) and Mosquitos 157 and 488 New Zealand Squadrons), In t he later years protecting Coastal Command anti-submarine patrols, and attac king the V1 flying bombs. (Published: 1969) (Publisher: William Kimber) (Pa gination: 208pp ills.)
Autobiograpies By Groundcrew
Send For The Artist
by Maurice Conly (as told to Paul Harrison)
This wonderful book records the career of the late RNZAF official artist, Maurice Conly. He served as the artistto the Air Force from the Second World War till his death in the 1990's. The book is beautifully filled with his paintings and sketches. Maurice was first recognised for his artwork in the RNZAF Contact Magazine, a job he took on after being grounded as a trainee pilot when a medical condition intervened.
Just An Erk : The Life and Times of an Aircraftsman in the RNZAF, 1944-1947...
by David Daniel
Dave's Waitawa Ink, Rotorua, N.Z., 2000
Tool Box On The Wing
by Geoffrey Ellis
We Also Served
by Wally Ingham
This book is an excellent account of the life of a rigger in a combat squadron. Wally Ingham served in a number of units, all recorded here, but most significantly he was a member of the ground crew on No 30 Squadron, with their Grumman Avenger dive bombers. He records the squadron's initial formation and training in Gisborne, and then their venture into the forward combat zone in the Pacific. I highly recommend this book as a great read and a very interesting historical account. It is a detailed look at the lives of the groundcrews.Wally also wrote The Avengers
Singapore Harriers: A Pictorial Record of the RNZAF No. 1 Aerodrome Construction Squadron
by Frank McCarthy
The diary of an airman who travelled to Singapore and Malaysia to help construct aerodromes, but found himself in the turmoil of the Japanese attacks and invasion. 52 leaves: many personal photos, photocopied, maps, 30 cm.
Just An Erk: The Life and Times of an Aircraftsman in the RNZAF, 1944-1947
by David Daniel
Published by Dave's Waitawa Ink, (Rotorua, N.Z., 2000)
An autobiography of airman David Daniel
Radar stories from the RNZAF, 1939-1945
by Ian M. Sexton
Published by N.Z. : Air Force Radar Reunion Inc., Pukekohe, 1993
This amateur publication, in two volumes, tells the story of the otherwise almost-forgotten men and women who operated the highly secret RNZAF Radar sites during the Second World War. It is compiled by one of the Radar operators himself, Ian M. Sexton. It was released in limited numbers in 1993 and includes contributions from many other radar operators, plus illustrations and maps. 333 pages, 30 cm
Books by or about WAAF's
The WAAF Book
by Bathia McKenzie
A general history of the New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force, with many personal accounts and photographs throughout. It also covers reunions of the WAAF up till the 1980's. An excellent overview on the history of the WAAF.
Wartime Memories Of The RNZAF
by Keith and Nona MorrisThis book is interesting in that it is the autobiography of two people, husband and wife Keith and Nona Morris. Both served in the Air Force, Keith as a pilot and Nona as a WAAF.
The book is in two parts, Keith's memories are recorded in the first part, and then Nona writes her larger section in the second part of the book. As Keith died the year before this book was published, I get the sense his story was unfinished, but this is made up wonderfully by Nona's contribution.
In Keith's section, he tells about his time training as a pilot in Canada with the Empire Air Training Scheme. Nona tells about her life on a remote farm before the war and afetr the outbreak of conflict. She goes onto her joining the WAAF at Christchurch, and her vearious postings around Harewood, Wigram, Cashmere and Norwood, before moving north to New Plymouth. This is an amazing insight into not only the life of a WAAF at war, doing a very important job, but also what the various bases were like. She describes the stations and the social life in detail, as well as the work she did in various roles.
The book is a real insight into the workings of two stations little heard of today, the air training staion at Norwood, and the Southern Group Headquarters at RNZAF Cashmere.
There are a lot of interesting and original photos in this book too, and I highly recommend this as a great read and an important piece of history recorded..
Self published by Nona Morris (Pukekohe, 1993). The book is a paperback and features 192 pages, with photos throughout.
ISBN 0-473-01970-1
Doing Our Bit: New Zealand Women Tell Their Stories of World War Two
edited by Jim Sullivan
This book by radio personality and historian Jim Sullivan collects the stories of many women who served in the many New Zealand Armed Forces and services organisations during the Second World War. Each chapter concentrates on a different lady, among whom there are many WAAFs
Biographies
Spitfire Leader: the story of Wing Cdr. Evan "Rosie" Mackie DSO, DFC and bar, DFC (US), top scoring RNZAF Fighter Ace.
by Max C. Avery with Christopher Shores
Publiished by Grub Street (London, 1997)188pp. 50+ illustustrations
Pilot On The Run
by Errol Braithwaite
Details of this book are coming soon
AL DEERE - The Authorised Biography
by Richard SmithPublished by Grub Street (London 2004). 228 pages hardcover b/w photos. RRP NZ$59.95
See the RNZRSA review here
Popeye's War
by Lorie Lucas (a biography of her husband, Fred 'Popeye' Lucas)
A detailed account of the wartime flying career of Fred Lucas, best known as Popeye, by his wife Lorie. This is a great book to accompany Popeye's own book, 'Popeye Lucas: Queenstown". However unlike her husband's book, Lorie has concentrated on his days in the RAF and RNZAF. He was a founding member of No 75 (NZ) Squadron RAF in Britain flying bombers, and later he returened home, and commanded No. 1 (BR) Squadron followed by commanding No. 40 Squadron RNZAF flying C-47 Dakotas.
The Road To Biggin Hill
by Vincent Orange (a biography of Johnny Checketts)Orange , Vincent
The Road to Biggin Hill: A life of Wng.Cmdr. Johnny Checketts
Shrewsbury, Airlife, 1986. 1st UK edition, hardback. 22 x 14.5cm, 192 pages, 16 pages of b&w photos plus maps. The uplifting story of one of the great fighter pilots of WWII - New Zealander, Johnny Checketts. He achieved one of the highest scores of enemy aircraft destroyed over the Channel before being himself shot down over France in September 1943. Helped by the Resistence, he made his way back to Britain and ended the war with the DSO; DFC; American Silver Star, and the Polish Cross of Valour. He returned to New Zealand where he served in the RNZAF until 1955, leaving to set up a crop-dusting company. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings, red cloth boards in very good pictorial dust jacket, internally shows occasional faint stains, otherwise very good: generally clean and unmarked in sound bindings. VG/VG
Ensor's Endeavour - A Biography of Wing Commander Mick Ensor, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, AFC, RNZAF & RAF
by Vincent Orange (a biography of Mick Ensor)
Published by Grub Street (London, 1994) This book details the Coastal Command pilot who's war saw him hunting U-Boats over the Atlantic
RNZAF Squadron Histories Squadron
A Long Patrol (No 1 Sqn RNZAF)
by James Sanders
The Avengers (No. 30 Squadron and No. 30 Servicing Unit RNZAF)
by Wally Ingham
40 Squadron: To The Four Winds (No 40 Sqn RNZAF)
by Colin Ballantine
Forever Strong (No 75 NZ Sqn RAF)
by Norman Franks
The New Zealand Spitfire Squadron (No 485 NZ Sqn RAF)
by Kevin Wells
The Wild Winds (No 486 NZ Sqn RAF)
by Paul Sortehaug
Defence Until Dawn (No 488 NZ Sqn RAF)
by Leslie Hunt
The Delta Military Camp, RNZAF Station : A History
by Robert E. Montgomery
Delta Reunion Committee, Picton, N.Z., 1995
TROLLOPE, RAMON K:
TIGER COUNTRY A Chronology of an Aerodrome and R.N.Z.A.F. Harewood- Part 1 - The Take-Over, Part 2- Up I Arms, Part 3 - Airmen and Aircraft Galore
R K Trollope Christchurch 1998 Rare NZ aviation limited to 54 sets, 3 Vols bound in navy blue cloth in with gilt to spine in slip case, Part 1 359pp illus, Part 2 309pp illus, Part 3 289pp illus, all FINE in FINE d/w laminated
RNZAF Pilot Training Courses 51-61, 1943-1945: A Pictorial Record /...
Compiled by Robert C. Barnett
About the RNZAF Elementary Flying Training Schools and AT.W. at RNZAF Stations Taieri, Ashburton, Harewood, covering courses 51-54, 1943-44
Published by R.C. Barnett, 1998. Gore [N.Z.]
ISBN 0473048728 (spiral binding)
78 pages. : chiefly illustrations, maps, 30 cm
RNZAF-Related Fiction
Flights and Fancies
by A.R. Greenwood
Tabuteau, E
Coconut Crackers Grata Around the Pacific with the RNZAF
Oswald-Sealy, 1943 Soft Cover. Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (23p) The contemporary cartoons of an artist-serviceman with the RNZAF in the Pacific, a nice copy, scarce
Errol Brathwaite
Fear In The Night
1959,The Caxton Press,NZ, first edition.12mo,165pp.VG/VG (edges & ep sl foxed,spine sl cocked,o/w fine,dustjacket spine ends sl bumped/rubbed/chipped,dj top edges sl rubbed,dj front corners sl chipped,o/w fine.Mid-blue cloth boards,red ink spine titles.Unclipped,tight,covers bright).Novel: a WW2 story of a Ventura bomber-crew crashed in Japanese territory. The author served with the RNZAF, & this was his first work, published August 1959. Modern first edition. Uncommon.AN AFFAIR OF MEN Errol Braithwaite
Winner of the Otago Daily Times Centennial Competition
"Captain Itoh, a Japanese officer leading a small detachment in pursuit of some Allied airmen shot down over Bougainville during the war, is the prototype of the tough, ruthless, military man, though not without his own brand of humanity. He comes across a village whose headman, unlike the other village chiefs, appears to have no fear of him and will not tell him where the airmen are hiding."
1961 1st edition hardback 255 pages, book in good condition d/j has tear and damage top front (see photo)
RNZAF History Books
New Zealanders In The Air War
By Alan W. MitchellRNZAF A Short History
by Geoffrey Bentley
Ross, JMS
The Assault on Rabaul Operations by the RNZAF December 1943-May 1944
WHB, DIA, 1949 Soft Cover. Good. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 32p Marks covers With illustrations and maps, a volume of the Official History of NZ in WW2, covering the Pacific Campaign
Portrait of an Air Force
by Geoffrey Bentley and Maurice Conly
Pacific Scrapbook 1943-47 - A pictorial history of a young New Zealand Corsair pilot in the Pacific and Japan and of Allied co-operation in the Pacific War
by Bryan CoxPacific Scrapbook is a follow-up to Bryan's earlier book Too Young To Die. It could almost be called a remake of that book. Basically this tells much the same story but in a different way. Ib this version as the name suggests, Bryan uses images to tell the story rather than text. Many of the photos from Bryan's own collection that appeared in the earlier book reappear in this, as well as many more. Also included are documents relative to the lot of a Pacific pilot. Bryan has included additional chapters too, including his family tree going back many generations, and details of all the RNZAF aircraft and crews lost in the Pacific.
182 Pages, Softcover, Published by McGraw-Hill of Australia in 1997
ISBN 0 07 470559 8
Defending New Zealand Volume 2
by Peter Cooke
We'll Be Home For Christmas
by Errol Braithwaite
New Zealand in the Second World War, 1939-1945
Official History
RNZAF Fifty Years On : Course 52A Wigram, 1944
by Robert Cranstoun
RNZAF Pilot Training Courses 51-61, 1943-1945: a pictorial record
by Robert Cranstoun
Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum, RNZAF Base Wigram
by W.R. Donaldson
The Royal New Zealand Air Force : Yesterday and Today
by Diana Hales and Rob Salmon
Author:
Title:
Kiwis over Normandy , April-August 1944 : an RNZAF News special.
Publisher:
Wellington : RNZAF News, 1994.
Description:
11 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Subject:
New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Air Force.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, New Zealand.Series:
Wings Over The Pacific
by Alex Horn
RNZAF 1937-1997
by Bruce Mountain (Editor )
1997 glossy paperback, colour plates.160pp
Clasp of the Few: New Zealanders with the Battle of Britain Clasp
by Kenneth G. Wynn
New Zealand Aircrew in WWII (kit, not book)
by Graham Warburton
Fighters RNZAF climbing the Solomons Ladder
by Leo WhiteWhite, Leo L
Fighters; the RNZAF climbing the Solomons ladder in the South Pacific
Whites Aviation Ltd, 1945 First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 46p (16 plates) (2p maps) P-B Wear on spine, around extremities Gd - VG A scarce Pacific Campaign title, following the RNZAF squadrons in the Solomons
Kiwi Air Power
by Matthew Wright
The History of New Zealand Aviation
by Ross Ewing and Ross McPherson
They Served With Honour
Experiences of South Canterbury Airmen in WWII
by D.E. Drake (2001, self published)
White, Leo L
Fighters; the RNZAF climbing the Solomons ladder in the South Pacific
Whites Aviation Ltd, 1945 First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 46p (16 plates) (2p maps) P-B Wear on spine, around extremities Gd - VG A scarce Pacific Campaign title, following the RNZAF squadrons in the Solomons
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RNZAF Aircraft
Buffaloes Over Singapore
by Brian Cull, Paul Sortehaug, and Mark Haselden
Aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force
by David Duxbury, Ross Macpherson and Ross Ewing
NZPAF * RNZAF Aircraft Colour Schemes Vol. 1
by Warren P. Russell
NZPAF * RNZAF Aircraft Colour Schemes Vol. 3
by Warren P. Russell
RNZAF The First Decade
by Charles Darby
Military Wings: Nine RNZAF Aircraft
by Brendon Deere
RAAF & RNZAF in the Pacific
by Rene J. Francillon
North American Mustang in RAF-RAAF- RNZAF etc
by Christopher F Shores
Curtis Kittyhawk MK.1-1V in RAF- RAAF-RNZAF etc
by Richard Ward (Compiler)
Supermarine Spitfire MK.I-XVI IN RAF. RNZAF. etc
by Ted Hooten & Richard Ward
Postwar RNZAF Books
3 Squadron: A Crewman's Day Aboard an RNZAF Helicopter
By John Bonallack
Published by Marathon Books, (Wellington , N.Z, 2002)
32 pages, coloured illustrations, 21 cm.ISBN 0958227497 (paperback)
ISBN 0958227454 (pbk. : set)