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The Missing Man: From the Outback to Tarakan, the Powerful Story of Len Waters, the RAAF's Only WWII Aboriginal Fighter Pilot

Book information

Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Year
2018
ISBN
9781760296414, 9781760636425, 1760636428
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6423508 bytes)
Pages
377 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

He was our first Aboriginal fighter pilot, he flew multiple sorties during Australia's World War II Pacific campaign, and he should have had a world of opportunity ahead of him at the war's end, but Len Walters became the missing man in the country's wartime flying history.;Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Note; Dedication; CONTENTS; PROLOGUE; PART ONE: THE DREAM, YUWAYA NGARRALI; 1 WORLDS APART; 2 DEPENDENCY; 3 DISPOSSESSION; 4 SKIN; 5 CHOICE; 6 STANDING APART; PART TWO: SKY HIGH GUNAGALAGA NGARRIBAA; 7 DIFFERENT DOORS; 8 THE ERK; 9 SOLO; 10 UTOPIA; 11 THE THRILL OF IT; 12 MISADVENTURE IN MOREE; 13 BAD SHOW; 14 HERE TODAY, GONE TO MOROTAI; 15 FIGHTING FIT; 16 WIND-DOWN; 17 ONE OF THE BOYS; 18 COMING OF AGE; 19 TRUE AUSTRALIAN BLOOD; PART THREE: BACK TO EARTH YANAAWUWLY DHAWUN; 20 A SUITABLE MARRIAGE; 21 BLACKFELLA; 22 FITTING BACK IN; 23 IN THE RING.

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