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RAAF Rathmines flying boat base. General coverage of facilities and maintenance to Consolidated Catalina flying boats. Staged sequence of a Catalina operation by 42 Squadron RAAF (code RK-M). Good shots of the interior of aircraft, cockpit, navigator, radar operator and waist gun position. Waist gunner fakes firing of Browning machine gun intercut with combat footage of a ship being strafed.
South-Western South Celebes area. 25 October 1944. Consolidated Catalina aircraft, serial no. A24-100, code name RK-L of No. 42 Squadron RAAF after being strafed and set on fire by the crew of a Catal
Darwin, NT. c. September 1945. Survivors disembarking from a Consolidated Catalina aircraft, code RK-0, serial no. A24-95, of No. 42 Squadron RAAF, into a RAAF launch, no. 011-12, on arrival at Darwin
Off Sumba Island, Netherlands East Indies. 1945-01-15. Smoke billows from Consolidated Catalina aircraft, serial no. A24-96, code RK-E of No. 42 Squadron RAAF, after being destroyed by machine-gun fir
LEYTE, PHILIPPINES. 1945-06-23. HANDING OUT PARACHUTES FROM THEIR CATALINA AIRCRAFT, CODE RK-G, SERIAL NO. A24-101, OF NO. 42 SQUADRON RAAF, BROUGHT ASHORE AT A UNITED STATES NAVY AIR BASE DURING A LU
Darwin, NT. c. September 1945. Survivors disembarking from a Catalina aircraft, code RK-O, serial no. A24-95, of No. 42 Squadron RAAF, into a RAAF launch, no. 011-12, on arrival at Darwin after they h
The crew of the disabled Catalina aircraft, serial no. A24-96, code RK-E of No. 42 Squadron RAAF in their dinghies preparing to move across to the Catalina aircraft of No. 43 Squadron RAAF which came
