My book is now available
"A Nice Day for Flying"
Garry J Gallagher
"Garry has pieced together a unique blend of personal stories that reveal the real faces of those key figures involved in the lead up to and the actual moment when a beautiful Darwin wet season morning was shattered by a rampant Japanese ideology.
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Garry’s ability to review, discern, and construct personal histories from both sides of the conflict, make this an important historical memoir for Australian, American and Japanese readers alike.
A great read for anyone looking to get up and personal with what really happened during the Bombing of Darwin period - 5 stars"
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David C Armstrong (Distance Education Teacher: NT School of Distance Education)
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"He who turns tightest gets the first shot in"
- Fl. Lt. Allen Mawar, Spit re pilot.
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Fl. Lt. Robert McMahon couldn’t turn his Kittyhawk tight enough inside the Japanese Zero.
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McMahon ... ‘My plane must have been hit with more than one hundred rounds of machine gun re, but I was only wounded slightly in one leg. The engine was on re, petrol was streaming from the left wing and the windshield was fractured. I immediately went over the side, my ’chute opened at 700 feet and I landed in the mangroves on the edge of Darwin Harbour’.
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Robert McMahon celebrated his 21st birthday the day before.
$29.50
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