Dakeyne Dick (4 results)

Hardback. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Mint condition in pictorial laminated boards. Issued without dustjacket. A new copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 142 pages. The war memoir of Australian gunner and radar. He survived 48 missions flying over Japanese enemy territory during World War II. Most of his time was spent living and flying with the US Army Air Force squadrons based at Fenton, NT. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross [DFC} by the Australian government and offered the American Medal of Freedom. This book won the NT History Book Award.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Coolalinga, David M. Welch, 2014. Small quarto, x, 142 pages with numerous illustrations (many in colour). Colour-pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. The author 'survived 48 missions and 500 hours flying over Japanese enemy territory during World War Two, both as a gunner and radar countermeasures operator. Most of his service was spent living and flying with US Army Air Force bomb squadrons base at Fenton airstrip, 140 kilometres south of Darwin in the Northern Territory. [His] account describes living with the Americans and flying in B-24 Liberator long-range heavy bombers, on record-breaking missions lasting up to 16 hours' (rear cover). Edited by Craig Bellamy and David M. Welch. Winner of the NT History Book Award.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 1st Edition. Covers & Spine: both front and back glossy picture-boards are clean and flat with minimal wear at the edges and corners, spine is intact and solid with only minor bumping at ends, a small bump indent on front side. Binding: firm throughout. Pages & Markings: unstained, no markings. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks.

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover laminated boards, 140pp, b&w and colour photos. New copy with some light scuffing of laminated surface. A near fine copy. In 1942 Dick Dakeyne joined the ultra top-secret unit Section 22 (so named because it was run from Room 22 of General MacArthur's Brisbane Headquarters). There, he was trained to operate highly classified radar detection equipment installed on just a handful of aircraft. During regular bombing raids, his mission was to map out Japanese radar installations over enemy territory. His secondary mission was to operate a 50 calibre waist gun position in an American B-24 bomber. Dick survived 48 missions and 500 hours both as a gunner and radar countermeasures operator flying with the American bomber crews of the 380th Bomb Group based at Fenton. Winner of the 2015 Northern Territory's Chief Ministers Book of the Year Award.