| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"Over the English channel and over Darwin"--Cover. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
PROLOGUE; Wings; Atlantic Convoy; Malan's Mongrels; Hurrybirds; Nightfighter; Love and War; Sweeping the Channel; A Dornier at Dieppe; Officer and Gentleman; Home for Christmas?; Top End Transit; Zeros Over Darwin; Going South; Unserviceable; EPILOGUE; Legacy; INDEX. |
| Summary |
Allen Mawer's diary is a candid and sometimes disconcerting record of conquests in the air and on the ground. It recounts the highs and lows of his war. From 1941 when, aged 21, he hunted the Hun over the English Channel and experienced the perils of aerial combat and the hazards of wartime romance. To 1943 when, living in a 'swamp that pretends to be an airstrip' south of Darwin, the Japanese flew over so infrequently he was in danger of going troppo. Allen was killed over Darwin at the end of the war. His diary offers a poignant insight into the human cost of armed conflict. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mawer, Granville Allen, 1919-1943 -- Diaries.
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Mawer, Granville Allen, 1919-1943. |
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Diaries.
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| Subject |
Australia. Royal Australian Air Force -- Biography.
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Australia. Royal Australian Air Force. |
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
Mawer, Granville Allen, 1919-1943. |
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Australia. Royal Australian Air Force. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian.
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World War (1939-1945) |
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Personal narratives -- Australian.
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| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Australian.
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Fighter pilots -- Australia -- Diaries.
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Fighter pilots. |
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Australia. |
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Spitfire (Fighter plane)
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Spitfire (Fighter plane) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Diaries.
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Personal narratives.
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Personal narratives.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mawer, Granville Allen, 1919-1943. Diary of a Spitfire Pilot. Dural Delivery Centre, N.S.W. : ROSENBERG, 2011 9781921719189 (DLC) 2012376953 (OCoLC)719426724 |
| ISBN |
9781921719424 (electronic book) |
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1921719427 (electronic book) |
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9781921719431 (electronic book) |
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1921719435 (electronic book) |
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1921719184 (paperback) |
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9781921719189 (paperback) |
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