A Consolidated Liberator B Mk VI of No 356 Squadron, operating from the Cocos Islands in 1945. Six RAF squadrons of Liberator bombers operated in the Pacific theatre flying from Burma, India and Ceylon, as well as the Cocos, and their little-known service is described in one chapter of "B-24 Liberator 1939-45", a new appreciation by Martin Bowman, published by Patrick Stephens (136 pp, 11 3/4 in by 8 1/4 in. £14-95).