Wings of destiny : Wing Commander Charles Learmonth DFC and the air war in New Guinea.
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TextPublication details: Sydney : Rosenberg Pub., 2008.Description: 1 online resource (416 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781921719264
- 1921719265
- Learmonth, Charles, -1944
- Australia. Royal Australian Air Force -- Biography
- Learmonth, Charles, -1944
- Australia. Royal Australian Air Force
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Australian
- World War, 1939-1945 -- New Guinea
- Bomber pilots -- Australia -- Biography
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Nouvelle-Guinée
- Pilotes de bombardiers -- Australie -- Biographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
- HISTORY -- Military -- World War II
- Bomber pilots
- Military operations, Aerial -- Australian
- Australia
- New Guinea
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1939-1945
- 940.54/4994 940.544994
- D792.A8 P34 2008
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Wing Commander Charles Learmonth, DFC and Bar, was a well-known flyer in World War II, who was based in Pearce, WA, and involved in the air search for HMAS Sydney. He fought in the skies of New Guinea, flying a twin-engine Boston attack bomber named She's Apples. In January 1944 the then Commanding Officer of No. 22 Squadron, was killed at the age of 26 in a crash 30 kilometres north-west of Rottnest Island. Learmonth Airport was named in his honour.
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Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Flight to Eternity; 2. Carramar; 3. Wings; 4. Westward Bound; 5. Charles and Marjorie; 6. Eastward Bound; 7. Boston Boys; 8. Port Moresby; 9. Boston Tea Parties; 10. Goodenough Island; 11. Beaufort Gremlins; 12. Between Sea and Sky; 13. Tail of a Beaufort; 14. Echoes of Past Years; Epilogue; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index
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