This book 'Wings Over Malayan Jungle' is a history of the only active service for the RAAF Avro Lincoln bombers A73 that being during the Malayan Emergency. The RAAF Lincoln home base while not deployed to Singapore was RAAF Amberley Qld.
The Malayan Emergency remains the most successful of Australia’s Cold War military commitments — yet its strategic, political, and operational significance is too often overlooked. In Wings Over Malayan Jungle, David Mitchelhill-Green brings this critical yet neglected conflict into focus through the story of 1 (B) Squadron RAAF.
From 1951 to 1958, Australian aircrews flew Avro Lincoln bombers in a challenging and often underappreciated role. As a contemporary RAAF review put it, the Emergency was a ‘different war’, one requiring ‘great skill and planning’, one demanding ‘ticklish flying, either day or night.’ The crews, a Singapore masthead reported, flew ‘through mist-swathed valleys and below rugged mountains,’ the war against the Communist insurgents fought as much above the jungle as it was by ground forces below.