Roberts Dunstan

**Roberts Christian "Bob" Dunstan** DSO (5 Nuwamba 1922 - 11 Oktoba 1989) soja ne kuma matukin jirgin sama na Australiya a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu. Ya shahara, a tsakanin sauran abubuwa, saboda:

* ya yi aiki tare da Rundunar Sojan Sama ta Royal Australian (RAAF) a matsayin mai harba bindiga, bayan ya rasa ƙafa ɗaya a fafatawa da Rundunar Sojan Ostiraliya ;
* kasancewa ƙaramar yarinya 'yar ƙasar Ostiraliya da ta karɓi Dokar Ba da Lamuni Mai Kyau (DSO),  da kuma;
* kasancewar, a lokacin da aka zaɓe shi, ɗan majalisa mafi ƙarancin shekaru a Majalisar Dokokin Victoria.

An haifi Dunstan a Bendigo, Victoria a ranar 5 ga Nuwamba, 1922 kuma ya halarci Makarantar Grammar Geelong tsakanin 1934 da 1939.

## Sojojin Ostiraliya
A ranar 3 ga Yuni 1940, watanni biyar kafin ranar haihuwarsa ta 18, Dunstan ya shiga rundunar sojojin mulkin mallaka ta Australiya. 

Bayan ya yi horo tare da Injiniyoyin Royal Australian, an tura shi aiki a matsayin mai ƙarfafa gwiwa zuwa Kamfanin Filin 2/8, a Arewacin Afirka.

A watan Janairun 1941, a lokacin yakin da kawance suka yi na kama Tobruk, Dunstan ya ji rauni a gwiwa; raunin ya kamu da cutar kuma daga baya ya bukaci a yanke masa kafa.  Bayan ya murmure a Masar, an mayar da Dunstan zuwa Ostiraliya kuma an sallame shi daga asibiti. 

## Rundunar Sojan Sama ta Royal Australia
Bayan ɗan lokaci da ya dawo kan rayuwar farar hula, inda ya yi karatun lauya, Dunstan ya yi aikin sa kai a ƙasashen waje tare da Rundunar Sojan Sama ta Royal Australia. A shekarar 1942, ya yi horo a matsayin mai harba jiragen sama a Port Pirie. A ƙarshen karatunsa, Dunstan ya hau jirgin sama zuwa Burtaniya tare da matsayin saje.

An naɗa shi, a matsayin mai harbin bindiga na baya, zuwa rundunar sojoji mai lamba 460 RAAF, rundunar Avro Lancaster, a RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire. Ya tashi da aikinsa na farko, zuwa Düsseldorf, a ranar 11 ga Yuni 1943. A watan Oktoba, an naɗa shi jami'in matukin jirgi.

A lokacin wani hari da aka kai Kassel a ranakun 22-23 ga Oktoba 1943, jirgin da yake shawagi a ciki ya samu fashewar bama-bamai guda biyu masu ƙonewa da wani Lancaster ya jefa, wanda hakan ya sa ya kauce hanya. Lalacewar da wannan hatsarin ya yi ya katse isar da iskar oxygen ga Dunstan da ɗayan mai harbin, Sajan Jirgin Sama Hegarty. Sakamakon yunwar iskar oxygen da mutanen biyu suka sha, babu wanda ya ga kusancin wani mayakin dare na abokan gaba, kuma harin ya lalata Lancaster sosai, harsashi ɗaya na bindiga da ke ratsa hasumiyar mai harbin baya. Jirgin ya sami nasarar komawa gida ya yi karo da Bisham, ma'aikatan jirgin sun tsira ba tare da wani rauni ba.[1]

Dunstan ya kammala cikakken rangadin ayyuka 30 kuma ya koma Ostiraliya a watan Agusta na 1944.  An ba shi lambar girmamawa ta aikin soja saboda ƙoƙarinsa a matsayin "mai kwantar da hankali da ƙwarewa a fannin jiragen sama duk da nakasar ƙafa ɗaya".

An sallame shi daga rundunar sojin saman Royal Australia a ranar 2 ga Oktoba, 1945.

## Ɗan siyasa, ɗan jarida kuma mai sukar fim
Dunstan ya jawo hankalin manema labarai saboda yanayin abubuwan da ya fuskanta na musamman: wani tsohon soja da rundunar sojin sama, wanda ya kammala cikakken rangadin ayyuka 30 duk da cewa yana da rauni a kafada. 

Ya rubuta game da abubuwan da ya fuskanta a cikin wani littafi mai suna *The Sand and the Sky*,  kuma ya ɗauki aiki a matsayin ɗan jarida kuma mai sukar fina-finai tare da *Melbourne Herald.*

Bayan ya yi aiki a matsayin kansila na yankin, Dunstan ya tsaya takarar majalisar dokokin Victoria a matsayin ɗan takarar Liberal. Tsakanin 1956 da 1982, shi ne memba na Mornington. Dunstan ya kuma riƙe mukamai biyu na minista, tare da alhakin (na farko) samar da ruwa da (na biyu) ayyukan jama'a. Dunstan ya mutu a Melbourne a ranar 11 ga Oktoba 1989.

## Manazarta