i have just finished an excellent book "Whispering Death: Australian Airmen in the Pacific War" by Mark Johnston which covers all these issues in great detail and contains many interviews with the people who were there and who flew the aircraft involved.
I was amazed at the efforts of RAAF pilots flying Wirraways, Hudsons, Beauforts and Buffalos against the Japanese, and gobsmacked at the number of RAAF personnel who were captured and summarily executed during the campaign.
