Australian World War II flying aces

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Chapters: John Lloyd Waddy, Peter Jeffrey, Clive Caldwell, Wilfred Arthur, Bobby Gibbes, Gordon Steege, Nigel Cullen, Peter Turnbull, Nicky Barr, Leslie Douglas Jackson, John Francis Jackson, Charles Crombie, Les Clisby, Charles Scherf, Russell Foskett, Paterson Clarence Hughes, Virgil Brennan, List of World War II aces from Australia, Adrian Goldsmith, Richard Hillary, Keith Truscott, John Edwin Ashley Williams, Tony Gaze. Excerpt: John Lloyd Waddy OBE, DFC (10 December 1916 - 11 September 1987) was a senior officer and aviator in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), who later served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and Minister of the Crown. As a fighter pilot during World War II, he shot down fifteen enemy aircraft in the Desert War, becoming one of Australia's top-scoring aces and earning the Distinguished Flying Cross. He went on to command No. 80 Squadron in the South West Pacific, where he was awarded the US Air Medal. He was also one of eight senior pilots who took part in the "Morotai Mutiny" of April 1945. Discharged from the Permanent Air Force at the end of the war, Waddy took a commission in the RAAF Reserve, leading the organisation as a Group Captain in the early 1950s. He was active in business and in veterans' groups, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1955. As the Liberal Member for Kirribilli from 1962 to 1976, he held cabinet posts in the New South Wales Parliament, including Minister for Child Welfare and Social Welfare (later Youth and Community Services), Minister for Health, and Minister for Police and Services. He retired from politics in 1976, and died in 1987 at the age of seventy. Born in Sydney on 10 December 1916, Waddy was the son of first-class cricketer Edgar Lloyd Waddy and his wife Lottchen, and great-grandson of General Sir Richard Waddy KCB. His four siblings included a sister and three brothers. Edgar Waddy established the real estate firm of E.L. Waddy & Son in Rose Bay, which John joined as a clerk after completing his education at The King's School, Parramatta. He married Vera Nellie May (Ve) Dengate on 21 July 1938; the couple had a son, Lloyd, and two daughters, Denise and Rosalind. Waddy enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in late 1940, learning to fly under the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) in Rhodesia. His two older brothers, Edgar and Richard, were also pilots. Edgar had tak