Len Waters – The Missing Man: Mildura’s first Aboriginal fighter pilot’s brush with doom

Edited extract from The Missing Man – Part Two, Chapter 11: The Thrill of It, pages 91-98 ON 17 August 1944, Waters arrived at Mildura for the final step in his training: conversion to Kitty­hawks.  The initial training focused on dive-bombing, strafing, aero­batics and dogfighting. This involved two aircraft approaching each other head-on and, once passing, […]