02 06th australian commando squadron (2 resultados)

Pp. xviii+306(last blank), frontispiece, text illustrations and maps, appendices including rolls, honours and awards, bibliography, subscriber listing, index; demy 8vo; pictorial laminated boards; Australian Military History Publications, Loftus, NSW, 2008. *First published by The 2/6 Commando Squadron Association, 1992. A unit history of the 2/6 Independent Company raised in May 1942 and trained at Wilson's Promontory at the Guerrilla Warfare school there. The unit was involved in four major campaigns between 1942 and 1945in PNG and later in Borneo [from cover blurb].…

First Edition. Pp. xviii+306(last blank), frontispiece and 31 plates within the pagination, text maps, appendices, Honour Roll (KIA, died of wounds etc), Honours and Awards, nominal and wounded rolls, bibliography, list of subscribers, index; demy 8vo; purple cloth, lettered in gilt & white, bottom edges a little shelf worn; dust wrapper; 2/6 Commando Squadron Association, Melbourne, 1992. First edition. *With a loosely inserted typed letter, signed, from Fred Ashford (ex-2/6 Australian Commando Squadron), acknowledging the purchase of the book. 2/6 Commando served in the New Guinea Campaign - Kokoda, Buna, the Markham-Ramu Valleys and Balikpapan (Borneo).…