The RAAF Ground Staff of the Desert Air Force Squadrons Tapa dura - 1992

Point Lonsdale Vic: E S Johnson, 1992. 1st Edition . Pictorial Boards. Very Good. Small 4to. vii 246 pages. A clean, unmarked and solid copy. CONTENTS: Early days, 3 Squadron, No.1 Air Ambulance overseas -- Call for volunteers -- Yellow draft embark for the Middle East -- Egypt -postings to RAF units and RAAF squadrons -- With the desert air force -- Christmas overseas -459 RAAF Squadron formed -- Tobruk falls. No.458 Squadron arrives from England -- FLAP. Coningham takes command of the Desert Air Force. 454 Quadron established at Aqir, 462 formed at Fayid. The third North African campaign begins -- Ground staff continue with their demand to be repatriated to Australia -- Invasion of Sicily, then across to Italy -- RAAF airmen of the Desert Air Force, now required -- First repatriates return homle via America. Their was brides leave for Australia. To a new land -to a new life. The war had ended