The Missing Man

The Missing Man

by Peter Rees
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 27/06/2018

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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 Waters became the missing man in the country's wartime flying history.


'You were the master of the machine...you were an airman.' Flying Officer Bob Crawford


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. He believed he could 'live on both sides of the fence' and be part of Australia's emerging commercial airline industry. He had, after all, broken through the 'black ceiling' once before. Above all, he just wanted to fly. 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 Water's life. He also tells us something of ourselves that we need to hear.

ISBN:
9781760636425
9781760636425
Category:
Military history
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
27-06-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Peter Rees

Peter Rees has been a journalist for forty years, working as federal political correspondent for the Melbourne Sun, the West Australian and the Sunday Telegraph.

He is the author of The Boy from Boree Creek: The Tim Fischer Story (2001), Tim Fischer's Outback Heroes (2002), and Killing Juanita (2004), which was a winner of the 2004 Ned Kelly Award for Australian crime writing, as well as Desert Boys, Lancaster Men: The Aussie heroes of Bomber Command (2013), The Anzac Girls (2014) and Bearing Witness (2015).

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