Anzac And Aviator

Author : Michael Molkentin
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742696454

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Anzac and Aviator by Michael Molkentin Pdf

'He was courageous. He was ambitious. He was skilled. He was visionary. He could be ruthless. He was someone born of a new nation. But he was of a time now long past. And yet in the language of a later generation it could be said he had the "right stuff" . . . Michael Molkentin captures [Ross Smith] brilliantly.' - Andy Thomas, NASA Astronaut (Retired) In the smouldering aftermath of the First World War a young Australian pilot and his crew prepare to attempt the inconceivable: a flight, halfway around the globe, from England to Australia. The 18,000 kilometre odyssey will take 28 days and test these men and their twin-engine biplane to the limit. It is a trans-continental feat that will change the world and bring the air age to Australia. It will also prove to be the culminating act in the extraordinary and tragically brief life of its commander, Captain Sir Ross Smith. Raised on a remote sheep station in the dying days of Australia's colonial frontier, there was little in Ross Smith's childhood that suggested a future as one of the world's great pioneering aviators. He went to war in 1914, serving with the light horse at Gallipoli and in the Sinai before volunteering for the fledgling Australian Flying Corps. In a new dimension of warfare, Ross Smith survived two gruelling years of aerial combat over Palestine to emerge as one of the most skilled and highly decorated Australian pilots of the war. In 1919 he was a pilot on the first ever mission to survey an air route from Cairo to the East Indies, before gaining international fame as the winner of the government's £10,000 prize for leading the first aircrew to fly from England to Australia. His attempt to exceed this by circumnavigating the world by air in 1922 would end in disaster. Drawing on the rich and extensive collection of Ross Smith's private papers, Anzac & Aviator tells, for the first time, the gripping story of a remarkable aviator, the extraordinary times in which he lived and the air race that changed the world. 'Standing with Lindbergh, Earhart and Kingsford Smith as one of the greatest pioneers of the air, Sir Ross Smith's life is brilliantly captured in this compelling biography.' - Richard Champion de Crespigny AM, bestselling author and captain of QF32

Author : Jeff Maynard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0646852736

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The Illustrated Sir Hubert Wilkins by Jeff Maynard Pdf

A pictorial history on the life of Australian explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins. Featuring over 200 photographs. Sir Hubert Wilkins was one of the most remarkable Australians who ever lived. Now for the first time, Jeff Maynard presents a revealing picture of his enigmatic life through a series of beautiful photographs, and extracts from Wilkins' writings. A limited edition collectible book.

Author : Florian Greiner,Peter Pichler,Jan Vermeiren
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110685473

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Reconsidering Europeanization by Florian Greiner,Peter Pichler,Jan Vermeiren Pdf

This pertinent and highly original volume explores how ideas of Europe and processes of continental political, socio-economic, and cultural integration have been intertwined since the nineteenth century. Applying a wider definition of Europeanization in the sense of "becoming European", it will pay equal attention to counter-processes of disentanglement and disintegration that have accompanied, slowed down, or displaced such trends and developments. By focusing on the practices, agents, and experience of Europeanization, the volume strives to bring together the history of ideas and the history of human actions and conduct, two approaches that are usually treated separately in the field of European studies.

Author : Nicole Townsend,Kus Pandey,Jarrod Pendlebury
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000844801

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Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power by Nicole Townsend,Kus Pandey,Jarrod Pendlebury Pdf

This book surveys historical and emerging global air and space power issues and provides a multidisciplinary understanding of the application of air and space power in the past and present, while exploring potential future challenges that global air forces may face. Bringing together leading and emerging academics, professionals, and military personnel from Australia within the field of air and space power, this edited collection traces the evolution of technological innovations, as well as the ethical and cultural frameworks which have informed the development of air and space power in the 20th and 21st centuries, and contemplates the future. It covers topics such as the insurgents' use of drones, the ethics of air strikes, the privatisation of air power, the historical trajectory of air power strategy, and the sociological implications of an ‘air force’ identity. While many of the chapters use Australian-based case studies for their analysis, they have broader applicability to a global readership, and several chapters examine other nations’ experiences, including those of the United States and the United Kingdom. This accessible, illuminating book is an important addition to contemporary air and space power literature, and will be of great interest to students and scholars of air and space power, air warfare, military and international history, defence studies, and contemporary strategic studies, as well as military professionals.

Author : David W. Cameron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922132192

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Shadows of ANZAC by David W. Cameron Pdf

On 25 April 1915, with the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) below the slopes of Sari Bair on the Gallipoli peninsula, the ANZAC legend was born. Nine months later, having suffered thousands of casualties from disease, hand-to-hand fighting, bombing, sniping and forlorn charges across no man’s land, the politicians and senior military commanders in London called it quits. While the Turks also suffered terribly, they at least emerged victorious. The fighting at Anzac was not restricted to the ANZACs and Turks alone. British troops also fought at Anzac from the earliest days of the invasion and large numbers of British and Indian troops were committed to the Anzac sector during the failed August offensive designed to break the stalemate. The invasion was also supported by large numbers of men — often non-combatants — who performed vital roles. Naval beach officers kept logistics operating in some form of ‘orderly’ fashion; Indian mule handlers moved supplies of food, water and ammunition to the front lines; and medical staff and army chaplains worked on the beach, caring for the wounded and the dead. All these men were frequently under fire from the Turkish battery known as ‘Beachy Bill’. Others surveyed the narrow beachhead and bored deep holes for drinking water; signallers tried desperately to establish and maintain communications; and the gunners hunted the battlefield for suitable places to site their guns. Off the peninsula, but just as vital, were the nursing and medical staff on the hospital ships, at Lemnos, Alexandria, Cairo and Malta, and the airmen who flew above the battlefield spotting for the navy and artillery. Shadows of Anzac: An intimate history of Gallipoli tells the story of the ‘ordinary’ men and women who participated in the Gallipoli campaign from April to December 1915 and gave the Anzac legend meaning. Drawing on letters, diaries and other primary and secondary sources, David Cameron provides an intimate and personal perspective of Anzac, a richly varied portrayal that describes the absurdity, monotony and often humour that sat alongside the horrors of the bitter fight to claim the peninsula.

Author : Bernhard Pretz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000370607

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A Dictionary of Military and Technological Abbreviations and Acronyms by Bernhard Pretz Pdf

This book, first published in 1983, is a compilation of some 50,000 acronyms and abbreviations used by the British, American, German and Soviet military. It enables the researcher to understand the language of the Armed Forces, their armaments and the related technology, and to reach a greater understanding of the capabilities and duties of the Armed Forces at the end of the Cold War. The Dictionary covers all the services and their technology, and is an indispensable reference work.

Author : Jeff Maynard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781643130965

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Antarctica's Lost Aviator by Jeff Maynard Pdf

By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth announced he would fly across the unexplored continent. The main obstacles to Ellsworth’s ambition were numerous: he didn’t like the cold, he avoided physical work, and he couldn’t navigate. Consequently, he hired the experienced Australian explorer, Sir Hubert Wilkins, to organize the expedition on his behalf. While Ellsworth battled depression and struggled to conceal his homosexuality, Wilkins purchased a ship, hired a crew, and ordered a revolutionary new airplane constructed. The Ellsworth Trans-Antarctic Expeditions became epics of misadventure, as competitors plotted to beat Ellsworth, crews mutinied, and the ship was repeatedly trapped in the ice. A few hours after taking off in 1935, radio contact with Ellsworth was lost and the world gave him up for dead. Antarctica’s Lost Aviator brings alive one of the strangest episodes in polar history, using previously unpublished diaries, correspondence, photographs, and film to reveal the amazing true story of the first crossing of Antarctica and how, against all odds, it was achieved by the unlikeliest of heroes.

Author : Sidney Cotton,Ralph Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015003321315

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Aviator Extraordinary by Sidney Cotton,Ralph Barker Pdf

The story of Australian-born Sidney Cotton, including his work with the British Intelligence Services.

Author : Bob Boulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : IND:30000054108836

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Aviators of the Charles Ulm and Kingsford Smith Era by Bob Boulton Pdf

Author : Christophe Declercq,Julian Walker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137550361

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Languages and the First World War: Representation and Memory by Christophe Declercq,Julian Walker Pdf

With several terms from the First World War still present in modern speech, Languages and the First World War presents over 30 essays by international academics investigating the linguistic aspects of the 1914-18 conflict. The first of the two volumes covers language change and documentation during the period of the war, while the second examines the representation and the memory of the war. Communicating in a Transnational War examines languages at the front, including the subject of interpretation, translation and parallels between languages; communication with the home front; propaganda and language manipulation; and recording language during the war. Representation and Memory examines historiographical issues; the nature of representing the war in letters and diaries; the documentation of language change; the language of representing the war in reportage and literature; and the language of remembering the war. Covered in the process are slang, censorship, soldiers' phrasebooks, code-switching, borrowing terms, the problems facing multilingual armies, and gendered language.

Author : Ron Karren
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781436342346

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Colonel McNeil's Daughter by Ron Karren Pdf

Perry McNeil, the Navy's fi rst female Air Wing Commander, returns to a peacetime America and fi nds her homecoming is anything but peaceful. She gets caught in a triple-decker sandwich of people vying for her attention: her father battling to recover from a debilitating stroke, her teenage daughter who is contemplating leaving college to marry the Navy pilot who got her pregnant, and the Secretary of the Navy who wants to engineer the greatest coup of BOTH of their careers - putting the fi rst woman in charge of an aircraft carrier battle group. Perry thought she had dealt with the worst life could throw at her during the war but she soon discovered that her real battles were only just beginning! Can she be the person everyone needs her to be and still retain her sanity?

Author : Michael Molkentin
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780642277466

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Flying the Southern Cross by Michael Molkentin Pdf

In 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm made the first trans-Pacific flight in the Southern Cross - an aircraft constructed largely of wood and fabric. They made the trip from Oakland, California, in nine days, during which they faced electrical storms, torrential rain, equipment failure, and fuel shortages. Navigational aids were primitive - contact with the outside world was by Morse code only - and safety measures were non-existent. After many close calls, they triumphantly landed in Brisbane, where a crowd of 15,000 welcomed them as heroes. Throughout this extraordinary journey, Ulm kept a logbook in which he recorded his raw impressions of the flight. Using Ulm's logbook, plus contemporary newspaper accounts and official documents, Flying the Southern Cross tells the gripping tale of this history-making flight, and the aviators who made it happen.

Author : John Pateman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781365490965

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Orpington and The Great War Volume Two 1915 by John Pateman Pdf

This is the story of the twenty five men from Orpington who died in the Great War in 1915.

Author : Naomi Parry,Brad Manera,Stephen Garton
Publisher : Longueville Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0994386370

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New South Wales and the Great War by Naomi Parry,Brad Manera,Stephen Garton Pdf

When the Great War began in August 1914, the people ofNew South Wales took up the call to arms. NSW sent more people than any other state to serve overseas and many more worked and volunteered to support the war effort. But the economic, political and emotional strains of war, and the loss of so many young men, and some women, in the service of their country, fanned social and political divisions and wrought lasting changes to the society to which serving men and women would return. New South Wales and the Great War is an authoritative history that uses the rich visual and written records of the marvelous repositories of our collective past to reveal the impact of war on the ordinary citizens of NSW, in theatres of combat and at home in our cities, towns and rural communities.

Author : Air Force History Branch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922488046

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Aircraft of The Royal Australian Air Force by Air Force History Branch Pdf

Aircraft of The Royal Australian Air Force tells the story of the RAAF’s first one hundred years by describing the acquisition, operation, and service record of the multitude of aircraft types flown by the RAAF. The 176 aircraft types include the flimsy wood and canvas aircraft typical of World War I, through the technological advances during and after World War II, to modern fifth-generation, complex aircraft like the F-35 Lightning II. Even before its formation Sir Richard Williams, the Father of the RAAF, had decided to employ an alpha-numeric numbering system to identify and account for each aircraft in service. This system started with A1, A2, A3 etc as each type of aircraft came into service. Each individual aircraft within each series was identified as A1-1, A1-2 and so on and the aircraft serial became known colloquially as the ‘A-number’. With some exceptions over the century since the A-number system started, aircraft entered RAAF service in broadly the sequence of the A-numbers, and so this book is intended to assist in charting the 100-year history of the RAAF by listing aircraft operated in A-number sequence, rather than by listing them by role (such as Fighter, Bomber, Maritime, Trainer, Transport etc) or alphabetically by name or by manufacturer. The inclusion of a comprehensive Index and the Quick Reference Guide to aircraft by role is intended to facilitate the location of the entry for any specific type of aircraft for those who may not already know its A-number. Aircraft of The Royal Australian Air Force is a must have for all those who have served in the RAAF, those with a passion for military aviation and aircraft in general, and the broader members of the public wishing to gain an appreciation of the Royal Australian Air Force in its centenary year.