Mark Lax

About The Author

Dr Mark Lax is presently the Senior Air Force Fellow at the RAAF’s Office of Air Force History. After a 33-year career in the Permanent Air Force retiring as an Air Commodore, Mark continues to serve in the RAAF Reserve and has since competed a PhD in Military History. Canberra based, he now lectures widely and writes on the broad spectrum of RAAF history in this the RAAF’s 100th year.  

Books by Mark Lax

Huey

The Helicopter That Became an Australian Aviation Icon

By Mark Lax
Collector’s Edition, Limited Release - Full Colour Hardback

There is no more iconic military helicopter than the Bell UH-1 Iroquois.
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Malayan Emergency and Indonesian Confrontation

1950-1966

By Mark Lax
Book #2
Australia’s involvement in the Malayan Emergency from 1950 to 1960 and later in a confrontation with Indonesia in the 1960s is little remembered today. Yet the deployment of over a third of the RAAF to support the British and Malayan governments in what became a long war of attrition against comm...
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