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TAWAO, NORTH EAST BORNEO 1945-10-20. A SMALL PARTY, INCLUDING A CORPORAL FROM 23 AUSTRALIAN WAR GRAVES SERVICE UNIT, AND A SERGEANT FROM AN RAAF BOMB DISPOSAL UNIT, WENT OUT TO AN AREA WHERE AN RAAF PILOT CRASHED HIS SPITFIRE APPROXIMATELY 10 MILES FROM TAWAO. THE PLANE WAS FOUND AND THE PILOT'S BODY WAS ABOUT 10 YARDS AWAY. APPARENTLY NO ATTEMPT HAD BEEN MADE BY THE JAPANESE TO BURY HIM. ABOUT ONE MILE FROM THE WRECKED SPITFIRE WAS THE REMAINS OF ANOTHER RAAF PLANE AND THIS GRAVE MARKED ALBERT JAM WAS FOUND LATER TO CONTAIN THE ASHES OF THE RAAF PILOT WHO PARACHUTED FROM THE PLANE. HE HAD BEEN CREMATED AFTER HIS DEATH ABOUT ONE WEEK AFTER HE LANDED. (PHOTOGRAPHER SGT F. A. C. BURKE)
TAWAO, NORTH EAST BORNEO 1945-10-20. A SMALL PARTY, INCLUDING A CORPORAL FROM 23 AUSTRALIAN WAR GRAVES SERVICE UNIT, AND A SERGEANT FROM AN RAAF BOMB DISPOSAL UNIT, WENT OUT TO AN AREA WHERE AN RAAF P
MOROTAI, BORNEO. 1945-10-22. HMAS ROCKHAMPTON RETURNED TO MOROTAI BRINGING BACK MOST OF THE AUSTRALIAN HALMAHERA FORCE, A LARGE QUANTITY OF JAPANESE EQUIPMENT AND SEVEN SUSPECTED JAPANESE WAR CRIMINAL
WESTERN DESERT, EGYPT. 1942-10-11. MEN OF 9TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISIONAL SALVAGE UNIT RECOVERING A MESSERSCHMITT BF109F PLANE WHICH HAD MADE A CRASH LANDING AFTER AN ENCOUNTER WITH TWO BRITISH SPITFIRE AIR
WESTERN DESERT, EGYPT. 1942-10-11. MEN OF 9TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISIONAL SALVAGE UNIT RECOVERING A MESSERSCHMITT BF109F PLANE WHICH HAD MADE A CRASH LANDING AFTER AN ENCOUNTER WITH TWO BRITISH SPITFIRE AIR
DARWIN. NO. 54 SQUADRON RAF (SPITFIRE) AT DARWIN. F/LT R. (BOB) FOSTER OF LONDON STANDS BESIDE THE SPITFIRE IN WHICH HE SHOT DOWN A JAPANESE RECONNAISSANCE PLANE. THAT WAS THE FIRST OCCASION ON WHICH
An aircraft is taking off from the beach. Dargie noted, "After the plane had been repaired by 15 Repair and Salvage Unit, Royal Australian Air Force, the pilot got into the plane in a very bad temper,