Sources

Primary sources

David Mattingley’s papers including:

Official flying logbook October 1942 to May 1945 personal operational diaries, 3 volumes, September 1944 to November 1944

Personal diaries, 3 volumes, from embarkation 5 June 1943 to return 10 March 1946 RAAF records

Address book and other personal papers photograph albums 1943-45 letters and airgraphs to family 1943-45 correspondence to David and to his parents 1942-46 Drew Fisher’s official flying logbook and operational diary September 1944 to November 1944. Photocopy Reg Watson’s official flying logbook entries October 1944 to November 1944. Photocopy

No. 625 Squadron diary October 1943 to September 1945: a compilation of information extracted from Squadron records by Eric Thale. Only 3 copies were made.

Secondary sources

Aircraft identification: Part 1 British monoplanes; Part 2 German monoplanes; Part 1 revised British and German fighters and bombers; Part 3 Italian fighters, bombers and

Seaplanes; Part 4 American types for the RAF. London, The Aeroplane, 1940-42

Air crew entry under the Empire Air Scheme: notes for the information of candidates. Melbourne, R. A.A. F. Publications No. 78 (May 1940)

Taylor, Leonard (ed) Allied aircraft illustrated: a selection of pictures from the Air Training Corps Gazette. London, Air League of the British Empire, [n. d. ca 1946]

Brooke, Rupert. The complete poems. Sydney, Hicks, Smith & Wright, 1944

Burns, Robert. Poetical works. London, Oxford University Press 1942

Cassell’s Anthology of English poetry. Selected and edited by Margaret and Desmond Flower. London, Cassell, 1942 Fletcher, Hanslip. Bombed London: a collection of thirty eight drawings of historic buildings damaged during the bombing of London in the Second World War 1939-1945, with an introduction by Professor A. E. Richardson, R. A., F. R.I. B.A. London, Cassell, 1947

Garbett, Mike and Goulding, Brian. The Lancaster at war. Part 1 (1971) and Part 2 (1979). Leicester, Reed Editions Australia, 1992

Harris, Sir Arthur. Bomber offensive. London, Collins, 1947 Hastings, Max. Bomber Command. London, Pan Books, 1981 Jimmy ‘This is London!’. London, Alliance Press, [n. d. ca 1942] Johnson, Sue and Winspear, Brian. Tasmanians at war in the air 1939-45. Hobart, Brian Winspear, 2002 Johnson, Syd. H. It’s never dark above the clouds: the experiences of an Australian navigator-bomb aimer with Bomber Command. Perth. Privately published. [n. d.]

Kings of the Clouds. Sydney, Frank Johnson, 1943 McCarthy, John. A last call of Empire: Australian aircrew, Britain and the Empire Air Training Scheme. Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1988 Nelmes, Michael V. & Jenkins, Ian. G-for-George: a memorial to RAAF Bomber Crews 1939-45. Maryborough, Banner Books, 2002

Otter, Patrick. Maximum effort: the story of the North Lincolnshire bombers. Grimsby, Grimsby Evening Telegraph, 1990

Pilot’s and flight engineer’s notes: Lancaster Mark I, III and X. Air Publication 2062A, London, Air Ministry, 1944

Pudney, John & Treece, Henry. Air force poetry. London, Bodley Head 1944

Pudney, John. Dispersal point and other air poems. London, Bodley Head, 1942

Pudney, John. Collected poems. New York, Putnam, 1957

Rapier, Brian J. and Bowyer, Chaz. Halifax and Wellington at War. Leicester, Promotional Reprint Co, 1994

The R. A.F in action. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1941

R. A.F. in action: photographic exhibition. Canberra, Australian War Memorial, [n. d. ca 1946]

Robertson, Bruce. Lancaster - the story of a famous bomber. Letchworth. Privately published. 1964

Rothenstein, Sir William. Men of the RAF: Forty portraits with some account of life in the RAF. London, OUP, 1942

Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World 1763-1965. London, Penguin, 1975

Wilkins, Lola. Stella Bowen: Art, love & war. Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 2002

Video

Air war 1939 to 1945. Time Life video Century of Warfare series. [n. d.]

G for George sound and image presentation. Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 2003