MILITARY AVIATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

 

Subject:   "LITTLE EVA"
Date:           Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:11:17 +0800
From:          "Lindsay Peet" <ppeetlj@ic-net.com.au>

Dear Peter

In reply to your msg of 21 APR 99, I can only give you three secondary references to the above crash. By the way Grady Gaston died last year - it was in 90th Bomb Group Association Newsletter.

Gwynn-Jones, T., "HEROIC AUSTRALIAN AIR STORIES", Rigby, Adelaide, 1981, pp. 54-72.

Alcorn, J.S., "THE JOLLY ROGERS", Historical Aviation Album, Temple City, California, 1981, pp. 21-26.

Woods, W.O., "LEGACY OF THE 90TH BOMBARDMENT GROUP, 'THE JOLLY ROGERS'", Turner, Paducah, Kentucky, 1994, pp. 23-26.

There may be primary sources at USAF Historical Research Centre, Maxwell AFB, AL. and at US National Archives, College Park, MD. I have worked at these two places on 380th BG records.

On QLD airfields of WW2, there is Roger Marks detailed work. I have a number of other books on the war in northern QLD in my collection and can detail these if you wish. Not everything is still in print (I started serious book collecting in 1988).

By the way, my research interest is military aviation in WA 1939-45 (history & heritage) - I am doing a Masters thesis at Curtin University on this. My area includes the eastern Indian Ocean, and up to Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands and Timor. I follow what happened in the NT and to a lesser extent northern QLD as it is all part of Australia's "northern air war". I have done some work on WW2 crashes in WA, and have had two sites in the northern Kimberley classified by the National Trust (WA). One is "Shady Lady" (380 BG, 14 August 1943, after the Balikpapan raid) about which I wrote a 22,000 word academic dissertation in 1995 (for a mark of 85%), and have given many talks about. I have built up a network of contacts in Australia and even get people referred to me by the USAF History Support Office, Bolling AFB, Washington DC (where I worked in 1996).

I also work in the general area of defence heritage and have strong views about the need to preserve reminders of WW2 for future generations.

I hope this is of some assistance.

With best wishes

LINDSAY PEET

 

Can anyone help me with more information?

 

"Australia @ War" WWII Research Products

I need your help

Copyright

©  Peter Dunn OAM 2020

Disclaimer

Please e-mail me
any information or photographs

"Australia @ War"
8GB USB Memory Stick

This page first produced 28 November 1999

This page last updated 21 February 2020