Jungle Rescue - Softcover

Freeman, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1499005067 ISBN 13: 9781499005066

Publisher: XLIBRIS, 2014

Synopsis

WWII has broken out and the Japanese are sweeping down through the Pacific Islands towards Australia and are seemingly unstoppable. Utilising the specialised skills in tracking and bush survival Joe had learnt in his youth going walkabout with the aboriginals on his father's 4 million acre cattle station in far north Western Australia, Joe is made an officer and put in command of a team of twelve highly trained men. These men are part of an elite force called the 'Australian Jungle Survival and Rescue Detachment' Their missions are to rescue any Allied airmen shot down by the enemy over New Guinea and surrounding islands. They are flown to the crash sites in a C47 transport plane with an escort of fighter planes, and under cover of night parachute into enemy held territory to search for and rescue any survivors, who they then take to the coast for extraction by submarine.

About this title

About the Author

I was born in Tasmania Australia, and moved to Perth Western Australia in my teenage years. I worked in the advertising field for some years and am a Commercial Artist/Graphic Designer by profession, but now a writer by choice. I once owned my own organic, mainly self-sufficient farm for 13 years, without the use of electricity, and have trained horses and ploughed my paddocks with a draught horse, as well as trained the draught horse to pull the buggy I built with simple hand tools. I actually worked as a horse-patrol officer on the Rabbit Proof Fence for some years on the Queensland-New South Wales border, near a small rural village called Woodenbong, where several sightings of the creature have actually been reported. My horse patrol was mostly in rainforest and wild mountainous country on the 'scenic rim' too rugged for motor vehicles, and I have used many of my amazing experiences in my manuscript 'Yowie Country' interwoven with fiction from a graphic and very active imagination.

Edition details

• Publisher: XLIBRIS
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1499005067
• ISBN 13: 9781499005066
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322