Description
Title: Australia’s Worst Aviation Disaster
Author: Cutler, Robert
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 2014
ISBN: 9781925046342
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 121 pages
Comments: At Batchelor Field, near Darwin, an American Flying Fortress lies broken with over 1,100 shrapnel and bullet holes in her skin. This war-torn, B-17C bomber has already performed sterling service in the air battle over the Philippines.
Stripped of her heavy armament, she is made ready for transport duty to the beleaguered Aussie Diggers along the northern coast of New Guinea. In March 1943, she begins daily transport service, ferrying American GIs from the jungle battlefields of New Guinea to the US Army Rest Area in Mackay, Qld, for R&R leave. On 14 June 1943, she takes off from Mackay Airport on her final, tragic flight.
