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Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 Clyde Fenton
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Clyde Fenton was a skilled aviator and a brilliant surgeon. With fellow doctor Cecel Cook (the Northern Territory's chief medical officer), he created the Flying Doctor Service. The service was a great medical success, but ran foul of the Department of Civil Aviation. Fenton battled with the department and soon found himself in court fighting to retain his pilot's license and carry on his work. Fenton became a folk hero to the people of the Northern Territory.

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First known date: ca. 1987
      ca. 1987 .
      Extent: 45 min.p.
      Series: y separately published work icon Michael Willesee's Australians Australians Trans Media Productions (publisher), Sydney : Trans Media Productions Film Australia Roadshow Coote and Carroll , 1987-1988 Z1587935 1987-1988 series - publisher biography

      A series of documentaries about Australians from all walks of life, the series was produced and hosted by former television current-affairs presenter Michael Willesee.

      Among the best-known people included in the series were infamous singer/dancer Lola Montez, actor Errol Flynn, athlete Betty Cuthbert, actress Lottie Lyell, radio personality Jack Davey, boxer Les Darcy, and Gallipoli hero Private John Simpson. The series also explored the lives of the Durkin family (Soldier Settlers), aviator Clyde Fenton, Sister Mary Mackillop, WWII nurse Vivian Bullwinkle, press baron John Norton, and General Henry Gordon Bennett, who fled Singapore in 1942, just prior to the island being invaded by the Japanese, leaving his army behind.
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