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09-03-2008, 08:43 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Outer reaches, Melbourne, Victoria
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You're Top Poster: #2   | Australia's only Aboriginal fighter pilot The Landings - Black Magic Register of War Memorials in New South Wales - Leonard Victor Waters Memorial Park AWM Collection Record: REL22230.001 - 1939-45 Star : Warrant Officer L V Waters, 78 Squadron, RAAF AWM Collection Record: REL22228 - Escape Map : Warrant Officer L V Waters, 78 Squadron, RAAF
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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09-03-2008, 09:29 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Not someone I'd heard of, so cheers Andy. It is amazing how much history is still unknown by the wider public. I wonder whether he ever talked about his service. It's a pity a (auto)biography wasn't written whilst he was alive - it would have been fascinating to read about his experiences, how he was initially treated, etc
__________________ _________________  Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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09-03-2008, 09:33 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Kyt, I first learned of Len Waters when I saw a piece on him back in the early '90s. The only thing that sticks in my head about it is that he was standing watching Col Pay's, I think, P-40E take off from a dirt strip. It might have been on Australian Story but more likely on a nightly current affiars show so the transcript might be a bit harder to turn up. Will have a go though.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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09-03-2008, 09:39 AM
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__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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