Description
Title: Shades of Blue – The Uniforms and Insignia of the Royal Australian Air Force 1921–2018.
Author: Macdonald, John D R
Condition: Mint
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 2025
ISBN: 978-1-958407-37-0
Cover: Hard Cover without Dust Jacket – 131 pages
Comments: Shades of Blue provides an extensive compendium of the uniforms, insignia, badges and accoutrements worn by the personnel of the Royal Australian Air Force over the past 100 years.
In its original form, Shades of Blue was a prize winner in the Royal Australian Air Force’s 2016 Heritage Awards, and publication of this edition is fully supported by the Royal Australian Air Force.
Between 2016—and prior to his passing in mid-2018—author John Macdonald continued to work on the content of the book, assisted by many respected historians and institutions, as well as collector friends, distilling and refining their combined knowledge and reference material, encapsulating the widest possible breadth of the uniforms and badges worn by the men and women of the RAAF, documenting the various changes made along the way.
The result is an unsurpassed testimony to the heritage of the Royal Australian Air Force, and a must-have reference for students, scholars and aviation historians, as well as collectors of uniforms and insignia.
