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Issue Details: First known date: 1965... 1965 They Hosed Them Out : A Story of Australian Air Gunners in the Royal Air Force
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Alternative title: They Hosed Them Out
    • Kent Town, Norwood, Payneham & St Peters area, Adelaide - North / North East, Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2012 .
      Extent: 359p.
      Edition info: Revised, expanded ed.
      Note/s:
      • Editor's dedication: 'Whether he told me the truth or not I never knew' - John Bede Cusack
      • Author's dedication: To all Air Gunners/ who fought and died/ in the Second World War
      • Epigraph: From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,/ And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze./ Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,/ I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters./ When I died theywashed me out of the turret with a hose. 'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner', Randall Jarrell
      • Includes 'Dramatis Personae', glossary and notes.
      • Written as: John Bede Cusack
      ISBN: 9781743051054 (pbk.)
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