Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War /
Robert A. Hall.
Canberra :
Aboriginal Studies Press,
1997.
xv, 228 pages :
illustrations, maps ;
22 cm
Originally published: Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-219) and index.
Black diggers: the digger legend and the inter-war period -- Neither necessary nor desirable: the struggle for the right to enlist -- A community at war: Torres Strait Islanders answer the call -- A change in attitutes?: enlisted Aborigines and islanders -- We fight blurry Japs alonga you...': Aboriginal de facto servicemen -- 'Treat a man as a dog...': Aborigines as a security threat -- Indispensable to the war effort: Army labourers in the Northern Territory -- Angles with wings: the isolated aborigines lend a hand -- They proved themselves.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Participation, Torres Strait Islander.
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Torres Strait Islanders.
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