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Old 5th April 2005, 05:12
Don Clark
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Re: War over SE Asia part deux

Bloody Shambles Vol 1, 2 are shortly to be joined by Vol 3. All fundamental as secondary sources but like all Shores' work, with many detectable errors of detail. Having said that, the difficulties of the primary sources are well documented.

For interest, here is a selective list of other fairly readily available reference material (all secondary sources too) primarily focussed on the RAF and RAAF in: 1942/42 Far East, Netherlands East Indies or South West Pacific Area air operations; or on RAF 1944 Burma air operations. Most of these are at least as reliable as Shores.

Australia in the War of 1939-1945: Series 3 Air
Vol I RAAF 1939-1942 D Gillison (AWM 1962)
Vol II Air War Against Japan 1943-1945 G Odgers (AWM)
Battle for Palembang T Kelly (Hale 1985)
Beaufighters Over Burma: No 27 Squadron RAF, 1942-1945 DJ Innes (Blandford 1985)
Catalina Dreaming A McMillan (Duffy & Snellgrove 2002)
Chasing After Danger: A Combat Pilot’s War Over Europe and the Far East Terence O’Brien (Collins 1990)
Darwin's Air War 1942-1945: An Illustrated History Aviation Hitorical Soc NT 1992
Flat Out: The Story of 30 Squadron RAF JF Hamlin (Air Britain 2002)
The Fourth Ally: Dutch Forces in Australia in WWII D Hurst (Canberra 2001)
The Flying Elephants: History of No 27 Squadron RFC RAF 1915-1969 C Bowyer MacDonald 1972
The Forgotten Air Force H Probert (Brasseys 1995)
Glory in Chaos ER Hall, Sembawang Assn (1989)
Hurricanes Over Burma MC Cotton (Crawford House 1995)
Hurricanes Over Singapore B Cull (Grub Street 2004)
Last Flight From Singapore AG Donahue (Macmillan 1944)
Main Fleet to Singapore R Grenfell (1987)
The Moonlight War: The Story of Clandestine Operations in SE Asia 1944-45 T O'Brien (Arrow 1989)
Nor the Years Contemn Air War on teh Australian Front 1941-1942 JD Rorrison (Palomar 1992)
Out of the Blue: A pilot with the Chindits T O'Brien (Collins 1984)
The RAAF Hudson Story Book One D Vincent (Vincent 1999)
RAAF in the SWPA 1942-1945 (RAAF Air Power Studies Centre RAAF History Conference 1992)
RAAF Flying Boats at War: The Way it Was J Leach (Aus Military History Publications 1999)
Rats of Rangoon L Hudson (Leo Cooper 1987)
Scorpions Sting: The Story of No 84 Squadron RAF D Neate (Air Britain 1994)
Silently Into the Midst of Things A Sutherland-Brown (Trafford 2001)
So Long, Singapore: RAFA Tung Song December 1941-March 1942 H Campbell, R Lovell (Hobart 2000)
Their Last Tenko: 242 Squadron RAF in the Far East James Home (Quoin 1989)
Three Times Lucky J Woodward (Boolarong Publications 1991)
Unsung Heroes of the RAF: The Far East Prisoners of War Stubbs & Stubbs (Barny Books 2002)
War in Burma 1942-1945 J Thompson (Imperial War Museum 2002)
War Without Glory JD Balfe Macmillan (1984)
Why Singapore Fell H Gordon Bennett (Angus and Robertson 1944)
Winged Bomb: History of 39 Squadron RAF Ken Delve (Midland Counties 1985)
Wings For Victory S Dunmore (M&S 1994)
Wings Over Burma K Hemingway (Quality Press 1945)

Official sources: published
Royal Air Force 1939-1945
Vol II The Fight Avails Richards and Saunders HMSO 1954
Vol III The Fight is Won Saunders HMSO 1954

Wings of the Phoenix Air Ministry (HMSO 1949)

London Gazette Dispatches: available in library holdings and on line
Operations in the Far East 17 Oct 1940 to 27 Dec 1941 ACM Sir R Brooke-Popham London Gazette Supplement, Jan 1948
Report on Air Operations During the Campaigns in Malaya and Netherlands East Indies Dec 1941–Mar 1942 AVM Maltby; London Gazette Supplement, Feb 1948.
Air Operations in Burma and the Bay of Bengal 1 Jan to 22 May 1942 General Wavell London Gazette Supplement, Sep 1946
Air Operations in SE Asia 16 Nov 1943 to 23 May 1944 ACM Peirse London Gazette Supplement, Mar 1951
Air Operations in SE Asia 1 Jun 1944 to Occupation of Rangoon 2 May 1945 ACM Park London Gazette Supplement, Apr 1951

Official sources, other
RAF Narrative – The Campaigns in the Far East
Vol. II – Malaya, Netherlands East Indies, Burma (Air Historical Branch RAF) [AWM220/25]

Last edited by Don Clark; 5th April 2005 at 05:42. Reason: Omitted references
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