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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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* Contents derived from the Kent Town, Norwood, Payneham & St Peters area, Adelaide - North / North East, Adelaide, South Australia,:Wakefield Press , 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Editor's Introduction, Robert Brokenmouth , single work criticism (p. 1-3)
Appendix One : Operation Oyster, Philips Radio Works, Eindhoven, 6 December 1942. Cusack's First Raid and Beyond, John Beede , single work prose war literature
Editor's abstract: 'With so many of its young men away in Europe as the Japanese threatened, as in the Great War, Australian newspapers and magazines published as much as they could about their boys fighting back. What follows is a compilation of exerpts from John Cusack's letters home to Dymphna Cusack and Cath Gunn as published in two Australian Newspapers, as well as relevant excerpts from contemporary newspaper articles.'
 (p. 307-311)
Appendix Two : Bomber's Leave - Surfing in Cornwall by 'Pilot-Officer John B. Cusack', John Beede , single work autobiography war literature (p. 312-314)
Note: Written as: John B. Cusack
Appendix Three : John Beede's War - and John Bede Cusack's War, Robert Brokenmouth , single work criticism
'John Bede Cusack's semi-fictional creation, John Beede, was an airgunner in four types of twin-engined aircraft, each designed before World War II. This appendix puts the experiences of the author and Beede into the context in which they found themselves.'
 (p. 315-324)
About the Author : A Memoir by His Daughter, Kerry McCouat , single work biography (p. 346-359)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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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Works about this Work

Appendix Three : John Beede's War - and John Bede Cusack's War Robert Brokenmouth , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: They Hosed Them Out : A Story of Australian Air Gunners in the Royal Air Force 2012; (p. 315-324) 'John Bede Cusack's semi-fictional creation, John Beede, was an airgunner in four types of twin-engined aircraft, each designed before World War II. This appendix puts the experiences of the author and Beede into the context in which they found themselves.'
Editor's Introduction Robert Brokenmouth , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: They Hosed Them Out : A Story of Australian Air Gunners in the Royal Air Force 2012; (p. 1-3)
Death over Europe Gordon Neil Stewart , 1965 single work review
— Appears in: The Realist , no. 19 1965; (p. 36-37)
— Review of They Hosed Them Out : A Story of Australian Air Gunners in the Royal Air Force John Beede , 1965 single work novel
Death over Europe Gordon Neil Stewart , 1965 single work review
— Appears in: The Realist , no. 19 1965; (p. 36-37)
— Review of They Hosed Them Out : A Story of Australian Air Gunners in the Royal Air Force John Beede , 1965 single work novel
Editor's Introduction Robert Brokenmouth , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: They Hosed Them Out : A Story of Australian Air Gunners in the Royal Air Force 2012; (p. 1-3)
Appendix Three : John Beede's War - and John Bede Cusack's War Robert Brokenmouth , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: They Hosed Them Out : A Story of Australian Air Gunners in the Royal Air Force 2012; (p. 315-324) 'John Bede Cusack's semi-fictional creation, John Beede, was an airgunner in four types of twin-engined aircraft, each designed before World War II. This appendix puts the experiences of the author and Beede into the context in which they found themselves.'
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