Entry Text: | HILDER, Brett. Navigator in the South Seas. [4], 232p., illus., index. London: Marshall, 1961.
The autobiography of a merchant captain. A member of the Australian Naval Reserve, he was called up but drafted into the RAAF on secondment to teach navigation. In 1944 he was fully transferred to the RAAF and flew operationally in Catalinas. About one–quarter of the book is concerned with his wartime career. Reprinted by Rigby of Adelaide in 1978. ISBN: 0727005537. |
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