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The missing man : from the outback to Tarakan, the powerful story of Len Waters, Australia's first Aboriginal fighter pilot / Peter Rees.

The missing man : from the outback to Tarakan, the powerful story of Len Waters, Australia's first Aboriginal fighter pilot / Peter Rees.
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Record Number 19467
ISBN 9781760296414
Location 355 REE
Author Rees, Peter, 1948- (author.).
Title The missing man : from the outback to Tarakan, the powerful story of Len Waters, Australia's first Aboriginal fighter pilot / Peter Rees.
Published Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2018.
©2018.
Collation xii, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Content types still image
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Carrier type volume
General Note Collection code: BD Australian Aboriginal Black Diggers
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-341) and index.
Summary Note Len Waters was a Kamilaroi man. Born on an Aboriginal reserve, he left school at thirteen and by twenty was piloting a RAAF Kittyhawk fighter with 78 Squadron in the lethal skies over the Pacific in World War II. It was serious and dangerous work and his achievement was extraordinary. These would be the best years of his life. Respected by his peers, he was living his dream. The war over, it should have been easy. Instead, he became a missing man in Australia's wartime flying history. Peter Rees rights that wrong in this powerful, compelling and at times tragic examination of Len Waters' life.
Personal Name Waters, Len,1924-1993
Subject Australia. Royal Australian Air Force -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
Kamilaroi (Australian people) -- Biography
Fighter pilots
Aboriginal Australian fighter pilots -- Biography
Fighter pilots -- Australia -- Biography
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Aboriginal Australian.
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