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翻訳と辞書　辞書検索 [ 開発暫定版 ] スポンサード リンク Len Waters ： ウィキペディア英語版 Len Waters Leonard Victor (Len) Waters (20 June 1924 – 24 August 1993) was the first Aboriginal Australian military aviator, and the only one to serve as a fighter pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during World War II.〔Hall, ''The Black Diggers'', pp. 62–68〕〔Stephens, ''The Royal Australian Air Force'', pp. 68–70〕 Aborigines at the time suffered significant discrimination and disadvantages in Australian society, such as restrictions on movement, residence, employment, and access to services and citizenship. Born in northern New South Wales and raised in Queensland, Waters was working as a shearer when he joined the RAAF in 1942. Training initially as a mechanic, he volunteered for flying duties and graduated as a sergeant pilot in 1944. He flew P-40 Kittyhawks in the South West Pacific theatre, where he completed 95 missions, mainly close air support. By the end of the war he had risen to the rank of warrant officer. Following his discharge from the RAAF in 1946, he attempted to start a regional airline but was unable to secure financial backing and government approval. He went back to shearing, and died in 1993 at the age of 69. ==Early life== The fourth of 11 children to Donald and Grace Waters (née Bennett), Len Waters was born at Euraba Mission, near Boomi in northern New South Wales on 20 June 1924. He grew up at Nindigully, near St George, Queensland, and was educated to the seventh grade at Nindigilly State School.〔Stephens; Isaacs, ''High Fliers'', pp. 85–87〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =Australian War Memorial Online Encyclopedia )〕 Hearing tales of pioneering aviators Charles Kingsford Smith, Amy Johnson, Bert Hinkler and Charles Lindbergh, and reading stories of Biggles, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers, he had, as he put it, his "head in the clouds" from an early age.〔〔Hall, ''Fighters From the Fringe'', pp. 155–160〕 Waters left school when he was 14 to support his family, working alongside his father as a ring barker. He was paid 10 shillings per week, for a seven-day week,〔 less than one-sixth of the average wage at the time.〔At the time, Aboriginal workers usually had a significant portion of their wages withheld and passed to the government, ostensibly for the support of destitute indigenous people. According to one source, under regulations which took effect in 1919, male Aboriginal workers under 18 years old in Queensland, had 80% of their wages withheld. 〕 In 1939, he began working as a shearer.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Len Waters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.