TY - BOOK AU - Wright,Edie AU - Ledden-Lewis,Charmaine TI - Charlie's swim SN - 9781922613103 PY - 2022/// CY - Broome, Western Australia PB - Magabala Books KW - D'Antoine, Charlie KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Western Australia KW - Broome KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Aboriginal Australians KW - Rescues KW - Bombing, Aerial KW - Australia KW - Heroes KW - Australian fiction KW - Children's stories KW - Roebuck Bay (W.A.) KW - Broome (W.A.) KW - History KW - Bombardment, 1942 KW - Picture books KW - lcgft N1 - Ages: 6+ N2 - One steamy morning during WWII, young Charlie was cleaning one of the many flying boats in Roebuck Bay. The skies darkened and a wartime attack on Broome began. Enemy fighter planes shot at the flying boats and among the blazing fires, sharks and carnage, Charlie spied a mother and child desperately trying to keep afloat. Based on a true story of a wartime heroism ER -