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Victoria, Australia: Publishing Solutions [2004] xi, + 196pp. B/white illustrations, maps. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper softly and minimally edge-creased at head. From the rear panel: "John McCredie was Minister at the Australian Embassy, Jakarta, when these letters were written to a fifteen year old daughter at boarding school in Victoria who asked' What did you do in the war, Daddy?' He had no idea his answer would run to nineteen long letters, but they were written in 1973 when Australia's participation in the Viet Nam war had recently been terminated and when the subject of Australia's involvement in war was a live one, as it is today." Contents include: Quotation. List of photographs, maps and documents. Preface. Foreword. Letters to Sally. Notes on Former Comrades. Notes on Author. Gun Turrets in the Liberator. Acks. Included Loose: a 'With Compliments' card, from Melbourne Legacy, signed by the Legacy…
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Survival of the Fortunate - an Airmans Story Paperback - 2003
by McCredie, John
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- Title Survival of the Fortunate - an Airmans Story
- Author McCredie, John
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- Edition First Edition
- Publisher John D. McCredie, Victoria Australia
- Date 2003
- ISBN 9781920892074
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Victoria: Publishing Solutions, 2003. Small octavo, illustrated wrappers, xi, 196 pp., illustrated. Includes a pen-written letter of thanks from the author. A fine copy. A collection of letters written by John McCredie. It covers his early life when he was a bank clerk while studying commerce at university. He eventually transferred to the RAAF in 1942, trained as a pilot and was sent to England in 1943. It covers his story during World War Two and the events that followed.
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