The Empire Strikes South: Japan's Air War Against Northern Australia 1942-45 (Second Edition)

by Tom Lewis and Tom Lewis

Very few Australians today know of the fierce air battles fought across the Top End of Australia in World War II. For more than two years Japanese aircraft crossed the coast and bombed relentlessly. Savage dogfights were fought between the legendary Zero fighter and Allied Kittyhawks and Spitfires. Big twin-engine Betty bombers rained down blast and fire upon airfields and towns, even penetrating as far inland as Katherine, some 300 kilometers from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0648665933
• ISBN13: 9780648665939
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Avonmore Books
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.8"