Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 15, 2007 16:28:34 GMT 12
I picked up a second hand book today called 'Victory Roll - The RAAF At War'.
It was published in 1945 by the RAAF themselves and is like a 1940's annual kind of style, with hard back cover, and a collection of articles about different areas of the war the RAAF had been fighting in. This was published just after the war was won.
There's about 200 pages in it, and lots of black and white plate photos, with some colour plates of paintings from various battlefronts. Really neat stuff.
An interesting thing is this is one of a set it seems as inside the first couple of pages it says:
IN THIS SERIES
Royal Australian Air Force
(1942) These Eagles
(1943) RAAF Log
(1944) RAAF Saga
(1945) Victory Roll
Royal Australian Navy
(1942) HMAS
(1943) HMAS Mk II
(1944) HMAS Mk III
(1944) HMAS Mk IV
First AIF
(1916) The ANZAC Book
(1917) From The Australian Front
(1918) Australian War Photographers
(1919) Australia in Palestine
Second AIF
(1941) Active Service
Australian Military Forces
(1942) Soldiering On
(1943) Khaki and Green
(1944) Jungle Warfare
(1945) Stand Easy
Volunteer Defence Corps
(1942) On Guard
Interesting eh. Anyone seen any of these books? Anyone a collector?
It was published in 1945 by the RAAF themselves and is like a 1940's annual kind of style, with hard back cover, and a collection of articles about different areas of the war the RAAF had been fighting in. This was published just after the war was won.
There's about 200 pages in it, and lots of black and white plate photos, with some colour plates of paintings from various battlefronts. Really neat stuff.
An interesting thing is this is one of a set it seems as inside the first couple of pages it says:
IN THIS SERIES
Royal Australian Air Force
(1942) These Eagles
(1943) RAAF Log
(1944) RAAF Saga
(1945) Victory Roll
Royal Australian Navy
(1942) HMAS
(1943) HMAS Mk II
(1944) HMAS Mk III
(1944) HMAS Mk IV
First AIF
(1916) The ANZAC Book
(1917) From The Australian Front
(1918) Australian War Photographers
(1919) Australia in Palestine
Second AIF
(1941) Active Service
Australian Military Forces
(1942) Soldiering On
(1943) Khaki and Green
(1944) Jungle Warfare
(1945) Stand Easy
Volunteer Defence Corps
(1942) On Guard
Interesting eh. Anyone seen any of these books? Anyone a collector?
