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Worrals of the Islands--A Story of the War in the Pacific (Worrals #6)

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Title:Worrals of the Islands--A Story of the War in the Pacific (Worrals #6)
Author:
Johns, W. E. (William Earl)   
(98 of 100 for author by title)
Worrals of the W.A.A.F. (Worrals #1)
Worrals Investigates (Worrals #11)
Illustrator:
Stead, Leslie   
(46 of 47 for author by title)
Worrals on the War-path (Worrals #4)
Worrals in the Wilds--The First Post-war Worrals Story (Worrals #7)
Published:   1945
Publisher:Hodder and Stoughton Limited
Tags:fiction, flying, war, World War II
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Squadron Leader Marcus Yorke tells Worrals that a dead native has been found off the coast of Australia with a message written in holes through a metal tin “Help. Nine British girls .... alive .... island .... south-east Singapore .... Reward this man”. Worrals asks for and is granted permission to try to find the lost girls. They have some information to start with. It is known that nine girls set off from Singapore in a bid to escape the Japanese invasion. Flying out to Darwin, Australia and taking advice from a local fisherman, Billy Maguire, our heroines fly on to make a base on Ingles Island. From here they plan to systematically fly over every island in an attempt to find the missing girls. [Suggest a different description.]

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Author Bio for Johns, W. E. (William Earl)

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William Earl Johns (1893-1968), better known as Capt. W. E. Johns, was a British author noted for his juvenile fiction featuring stories about pilots and flying. Johns first career was as a sanitary inspector but he soon gave it up to enlist in the army at the beginning of World War I. He saw action during the Gallipoli Campaign and also served garrison duty in Egypt. Afterwards he applied to serve in the Royal Flying Corps. He was posted to a flying school in England where he trained pilots. In the 1930s he began to write fiction basing his stories on his flying experience. All told he wrote over 150 novels and short stories for young boys and girls. (wejohns.com)

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