Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Prologue

Introduction: Beyond the call of duty

1 The Early Years

2 Khartoum

3 Landing Ground 122

4 First Victory

5 Enter the Kittyhawks

6 Senussi Adventure

7 Cairo

8 Gambut

9 Operation Venezia

10 Knightsbridge

11 Battle of the Cauldron

12 Bir Hacheim

13 Sidi Rezegh

14 Mersa Matruh

15 Tobruk

16 Bergamo

17 Lake Como

18 Gavi: The metamorphosis

19 Bergamo revisited

20 Germany bound

21 Pontremoli

22 Abruzzi

23 Goriono Valli

24 The Alpine Route

25 Cutello

26 Normandy

27 Australia

Epilogue: the years after

Australian fighter aces of World War Two

Further reading

About the Author

Peter Dornan is a Brisbane physiotherapist and is author of The Silent Men, which is currently being made into a film.