Anthony Cooper

The Japanese air raids on Darwin on 19 February 1942 are well known to most Australians, but what happened afterwards? For almost two years, the airspace over north-west Australia was routinely infiltrated by Japanese air raids, tallying about 70 in total. The 1942-43 air raids on Darwin constituted the only sustained and intensive direct assault on Australian territory in the...

In December 1943, five courageous correspondents join a British air raid on Berlin. They are Australians, Alf King from the Sydney Morning Herald and Norm Stockton from the Sydney Sun; Americans, Ed Murrow from CBS and Lowell Bennett from the International News Service; and Norwegian journalist and activist, Nordahl Grieg. Each is assigned to one of the 400 Lancaster bombers...

The author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played—or failed to play—in crucial World War II campaigns in New Guinea. Kokoda Air Strikes tells the story of the early battles of the South West Pacific theatre: the Coral Sea, Kokoda, Milne Bay, and Guadalcanal. These are presented as a single...