Название: RAAF Black Cats: The Secret History Of The Covert Catalina Mine-laying Operations To Cripple Japan's War Machine
Автор: Robert Cleworth, John Suter Linton
Издательство: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1760633062
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 7,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
In March 1945 Reg Cleworth, a navigator on PBY Catalina seaplanes flying out of Darwin, went missing in action. No details were ever given about the incident that took his life, nor the reason his plane went down. For Reg's younger brother, Robert, the news came as a fulfilling prophecy. The last time they saw each other, Reg confided in Robert, 'I don't think I'm coming back'.
Forty years later Robert decided to investigate what happened to his brother. What he uncovered was an extraordinary story of a covert Australian airborne mine-laying operation in cooperation with the US Seventh Fleet to disrupt the Japanese supply routes. One of the riskier and more dangerous RAAF undertakings of the Pacific War, secrecy restrictions were imposed on everyone involved. They were never formally lifted.