Fighters from the Fringe

Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people served their country during the Second World War and this book focuses on the experiences of six. Oodgeroo Noonuccal was a wireless operator whose brothers were prisoners of war. Reg Saunders served in Greece and New Guinea, as the first Aboriginal officer in the Australian Army, and later in Korea. Leonard Waters trained and served as the first Aboriginal fighter pilot. Charles Mene , a Torres Strait Islander, served throughout the war a