Out of the Blue: A Pilot With the Chindits by Terence O'Brien

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned. Mark on top and right foredge. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Some water stains to inside of dust jacket. Body text and binding are still very good.

Terence Patrick O'Brien, a young Australian, had already survived a full tour of bombing missions with Coastal Command, and should have been resting from operations at the RAF's request, when he volunteered to join the Chindits, an army units operating behind enemy lines in Burma who depended on air communications for their very existence.

This is O'Brien's memoir of his days with the 4/9th Gurkhas in the remote mountainous region between northern Burma and Yannan - among the strangest and most exacting military undertakings of World War II. (Trove)