Description

Title: Six Aces – Australian Fighter Pilots 1939-45

Author: McAulay, Lex

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 1991

ISBN: 1875593004

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 342 pages

Comments: An account of six RAAF Fighter Aces of World War 2.

Les Clisby DFC – Hurricane pilot of RAF 1st Squadron destroyed 14 German aircraft during the blitzkrieg of 1940 and was the first RAAF ace of the Second World War.

Tony Gaze DFC – Flew Spitfires over France and was shot down and escaped actually flew Meteor jets at end of war.

Jack Storey DFC – RAAF Hurricane pilot in Burma.

Butch Gordon DFC – Beaufighter pilot with 31 Squadron RAAF in  Darwin.

Mervyn Shipard DFC – Beaufighter pilot with RAAF 69 and 89 Squadrons.

Charles Scherf DSO, DFC –  Mosquito pilot with 418 Squadron who destroyed 25 German aircraft in 1944.