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Place of Birth: Boomi, New South Wales, Australia
About 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.
- 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.
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