For the full story of the war at Mission Beach there is an eBook, War and Beach; by Ken Gray, Draft2Digital, 2020. It is a 154-page history that relates all the WWII events in Mission Beach.
The history was gleaned from war diaries, records and publications and from oral histories. It includes information on US and RAN war ships visiting this district and conducting war exercises here and on the RAAF’s activities on Dunk Island as well as the Army and Air force work, testing gas warfare chemicals on the mainland and on the Brook Islands.
The book is available in the Mission Beach library on Overdrive. It is also available at most eBook online sellers such as Amazon, Booktopia and Kobo. It costs $5 on Kobo and is best seen on a colour screen (laptop, computer, phone or tablet) to read the graphics and images. It is necessary to download Adobe Digital Editions first, then the book, to read it in full colour.
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