Anthony Cooper is a retired schoolteacher with a PhD in German civil aviation in the Weimar Republic, and is the author of HMAS Bataan 1952 (NewSouth,2010); Darwin Spitfires (NewSouth, 2011 and 2022) and Kokoda Air Strikes ( NewSouth, 2014) (https://www.dropbox.com/s/bzvjvxpxn5x1xz2/apr23nf_rs.pdf?dl=0)