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* Contents derived from the Kent Town,Norwood, Payneham & St Peters area,Adelaide - North / North East,Adelaide,South Australia,:Wakefield Press,2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Editor's abstract: 'With so many of its young men away in Europe as the Japanese threatened, as in the Great War, Australian newspapers and magazines published as much as they could about their boys fighting back. What follows is a compilation of exerpts from John Cusack's letters home to Dymphna Cusack and Cath Gunn as published in two Australian Newspapers, as well as relevant excerpts from contemporary newspaper articles.'
'John Bede Cusack's semi-fictional creation, John Beede, was an airgunner in four types of twin-engined aircraft, each designed before World War II. This appendix puts the experiences of the author and Beede into the context in which they found themselves.'
Kent Town,Norwood, Payneham & St Peters area,Adelaide - North / North East,Adelaide,South Australia,:Wakefield Press,2012.
Extent:359p. Edition info:Revised, expanded ed.
Note/s:
Editor's dedication: 'Whether he told me the truth or not I never knew' - John Bede Cusack
Author's dedication: To all Air Gunners/ who fought and died/ in the Second World War
Epigraph: From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,/ And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze./ Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,/ I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters./ When I died theywashed me out of the turret with a hose. 'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner', Randall Jarrell