The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of 436327 Flying Officer (FO) Richard Stewart Bennett, 463 Squadron RAAF, front row centre, and unidentified RAF crew members. A native of Leederville, WA, FO Bennett and his crew were killed in action during an operation over Germany on 21 March 1945. Sixteen aircraft from 463 Squadron had taken part in the operation, leaving RAF Waddington on the night of 20/21 March 1945 to bomb a synthetic oil plant at Bohlen, Germany. Lancaster PB845 was the only aircraft that failed to return. A 1949 report by a Missing Research and Enquiry Team recorded that the aircraft crashed near Trachenau, a village in the target area. The crew were buried in the 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Berlin.
Group portrait of the crew of Lancaster PB290 JO-K at RAF Base Waddington. Identified left to right; 434484 Flying Officer (FO) Gwynne Thomas RAAF; 429369 FO Richard Rodney 'Rod' Young RAAF; 433194 F
Studio portrait of 434484 Flying Officer (FO) Gwynne Thomas, 463 Sqn RAAF, of Gympie, Qld. FO Thomas was serving as Wireless Operator aboard Lancaster PB290 JO-K when it took off from RAF Base Waddin
Portrait of 429369 Flying Officer (FO) Richard Rodney (Rod) Young, 463 Sqn RAAF, of West Maitland, NSW at the controls of 'H' for How. FO Young was piloting Lancaster PB290 JO-K when it took off fro
Group portrait of 424101 (later Flying Officer (FO)) Keith Robert Stewart RAAF (left); an unidentified Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Instructor (middle); and 437742 FO Roy Leslie Pegler, RAAF (right
Identification portrait of 413388 Aircraftman 2 (AC2) Richard Mortimer Newark Jacombs, of Macarthur Parade, Dulwich Hill, NSW. A clerk prior to enlisting on 17 August 1941, he completed his initial tr
Informal portrait of 421569 Flying Officer (FO) Harry Chatto RAAF, 180 Squadron RAF, of Kogarah, NSW. An audit clerk prior to enlistment, FO Chatto trained in Canada under the Empire Air Training Sche
