Wounded Eagle – The Bombing of Darwin and Australia’s Air Defence

Description

Title: Wounded Eagle – The Bombing of Darwin and Australia’s Air Defence Scandal

Author: Ewer, Dr Peter

Condition: Mint

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 2009

ISBN: 9781741108255

Cover: Hard Cover without Dust Jacket (Laminated boards) – 240 pages

Comments: In 1942, Japanese planes bombed Darwin, and flew over Sydney and Melbourne. Why were these planes not shot down? Wounded Eagle explains how, on the only occasion Australia’s territorial integrity has been breached, the Royal Australian Air Force had little with which to defend the country. This devastating expose shows how Australia was left defenceless by a clique of conservative politicians, including Liberal Party hero Robert Menzies, who took decisions that left Australia without an air defence system in its greatest hour of need.