The Resource 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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The item The missing man : from the outback to Tarakan, the powerful story of Len Waters, Australia's first Aboriginal fighter pilot, Peter Rees represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).
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- Summary
- Len Walters 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 348 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates
- Isbn
- 9781760296414
- Label
- The missing man : from the outback to Tarakan, the powerful story of Len Waters, Australia's first Aboriginal fighter pilot
- Title
- The missing man
- Title remainder
- from the outback to Tarakan, the powerful story of Len Waters, Australia's first Aboriginal fighter pilot
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Rees
- Subject
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- Defence - World War II
- Fighter pilots -- Australia -- Biography
- History - Biographies - Indigenous
- Kamilaroi (Australian people) -- Bibliography
- Australia, Royal Australian Air Force -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Aboriginal Australian
- Waters, Leonard Victor, 1924-1993
- Biographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Len Walters 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
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- SALS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rees, Peter
- Dewey number
- 940.544994
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Waters, Leonard Victor
- Australia
- World War, 1939-1945
- Fighter pilots
- Kamilaroi (Australian people)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The missing man : from the outback to Tarakan, the powerful story of Len Waters, Australia's first Aboriginal fighter pilot, Peter Rees
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000063238570
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 348 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781760296414
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1042091020
- Label
- The missing man : from the outback to Tarakan, the powerful story of Len Waters, Australia's first Aboriginal fighter pilot, Peter Rees
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000063238570
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 348 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781760296414
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1042091020
Subject
- Defence - World War II
- Fighter pilots -- Australia -- Biography
- History - Biographies - Indigenous
- Kamilaroi (Australian people) -- Bibliography
- Australia, Royal Australian Air Force -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Aboriginal Australian
- Waters, Leonard Victor, 1924-1993
- Biographies
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