Dennis Newton
Historian and writer
Dennis Newton is a graduate of the University of New England and a former teacher in the NSW Department of Education. After university, he began writing for a hobby in 1979, concentrating on Australian military aviation - his lifelong fascination.
He is a member of the Australian Society of Authors, the NSW Writers' Centre, the NSW Military Historical Society, and the Aviation Historical Society of Australia.
Prior to writing for AERO Australia, he had a regular column in Australian Aviation magazine and, before the newspaper ceased, the Sydney Sun's historical page 'This was Australia'. His articles have been published widely in such magazines and journals as Australian Flying, Aircraft, the Book of Flying, Plastics Modeller, and Flightpath; the Journal of the Australian War Memorial; Wings, the Official Organ of the RAAF Association; Despatch, the Journal of the NSW Military Historical Society; Aviation Heritage, the Journal of the Aviation Historical Society of Australia; and The Thirtyniner, the Official Organ of The Thirtyniner Association of Australia. Other articles have been published overseas in Britain in FlyPast, Air Enthusiast and Cross & Cockade, the Journal of WWI historians; and in the USA, Aviation History and Air Progress Aviation Review.
Dennis' first book, A Few of 'The Few' - Australians and the Battle of Britain was published by the Australian War Memorial in 1990, and he has since followed up with Australian Air Aces (1996); Clash of Eagles (1996); First Impact (1997); With the Yanks in Korea Vol 1, 1950-51 (2000), co-authored with Brian Cull; and The Devil at 6 O'clock (2001).
His contributions to the works of other authors have included Stewart Wilson's Legends of the Air series; Col King & Ron Guthrie's Escape from north Korea; Bryan Philpot's Meteor; the RAAF historical Section's Consice History, Units of the Royal Australian Air Force; the ANU's Australian Dictionary of Biography; Helen Harper's Twenty two Temporary Gentlemen and Helen Hayes' Beyond The Great Escape.
Aside from writing for AERO Australia, work that he has currently in progress includes With the Yanks in Korea, Vol 2 1952-53 (detailing the achievements of Australian, British, South African, Canadian, New Zealand, Greek and Thai fliers during the final 18 months of the Korean air war (1950-3); and The RAAF Over Britain - Through Scottie's Eye, which will describe (by also featuring the photographs and diary of former RAAF photographer, Tom Scott) the exploits of the RAAF units that operated from Britain in WW2. He has also recently contributed to a projected work by Cam Care on the Mustang in Australian service.
Dennis Newton
