CAF Reading List

The 2010 Chief of Air Force’s Reading List is the first of its kind in the history of the Royal Australian Air Force and it is an attempt to facilitate and improve the level of professional mastery of its members by providing a ready reference of books that have contributed to the history and development of air power theory, strategy and practice.

The CAF Reading List is produced by the Air Power Development Centre and can be accessed here.

Official Histories of the RAAF

The links below are to the Australian War Memorial website

Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918
Volume VIII - The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War, 1914-1918 (Eleventh Edition, 1941)

Autralia in the War of 193901945 - Air - Volume 1
Volume I – Royal Australian Air Force, 1939–1942 (1st edition, 1962)
Volume II – Air War Against Japan, 1943–1945 (1968 reprint)
Volume III – Air War Against Germany and Italy, 1939–1943 (1st edition, 1954)
Volume IV – Air Power Over Europe, 1944–1945 (1st edition, 1963)