Catalina Dreaming

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Duffy & Snellgrove, 2002 - History - 200 pages
Here is a personal history of the RAAF Catalina Flying boats based in Cairns, Karumba, Darwin and Melville Bay during World War II, and the men who flew and looked after them. This is the story of men from southern Australia trhrown into a hostile landscape, and their confrontations with tropical conditions, Aboriginal tribesmen, Yanks, air raids on Darwin, boredomand terror, sharks and of course the Japanese. Andrew McMillan has visited the bases, consulted the archives, and talked to many of the men involved.

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Contents

The CatBoats are Flying Tonight
17
Lanterns in the Sun
41
Operation Septic
73
Copyright

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About the author (2002)

Andrew McMillan was born in South Yorkshire in 1988 and lectures in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University. In 2014 he won a substantial Northern Writer's Award. He was also won the UK's £10,000 (A$21,394) Guardian First Book Award, with his title Physical. His title is just the second poetry collection to be shortlisted for the award since it was established in 1999.

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