And Far From Home: Flying RAAF Transports in the Pacific War and After by John Balfe

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent. Dust jacket has some light creasing at top edge and at spine.

Here are the recollections of a RAAF squadron commander who for five years flew Douglas transport in the wartime Pacific and after throughout South-East Asia, China and Japan.

John Balfe began transport flying in Australia and New Guinea when the peril of Japanese invasion seemed imminent. Later, when the tide was turned back, he and his fellow pilots carried men, machinery and suppliers throughout the Pacific, unarmed and dodging enemy aircraft and hazardous tropical weather.

At the war's end, he carried POWs home, flew journalists to Hiroshima and Nagasaki just weeks after the bombs, then a regular courier service to Japan serving the Occupation Forces, and even to central China as the civil war raged around him.