The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Kittyhawk pilots of No. 80 Squadron RAAF, travel in a Jeep (Serial No.207141) from their camp to the airstrip for a flight over the Halmaheras. Front seat, left to right: 419611 Pilot Officer (PO, later Flying Officer [FO]) Stanley Freeman Fisher Tomlinson, Mentone, Vic; 401765 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Watt Booth Castles, East Kew, Vic; 401058 FO (later Flt Lt) Douglas Grant Vallance, Williamstown, Vic (lost on operations over Borneo on 4 August 1945). Back seat, left to right: 125688 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt, later Warrant Officer [WO]) Jack William Pearson, Ivanhoe, Vic; 431566 Flt Sgt John Kelvin Hoare, Mount Albert, Vic (lost on operations over Borneo on 4 August 1945); 419541 WO (later FO) Jack Allan Schmidt, Carnegie, Vic; 03165 FO (later Flt Lt) Roy Duncan Taylor, Williamstown, Vic. Flt Lt Vallance and Flt Sgt Hoare were lost on operations when their aircraft (Kittyhawks A29-1214 and A29-1124) probably collided in cloud near Borneo on 4 August, 1945.
Group portrait of No. 22 Beaufighter Course. Identified from left to right, back row: 405707 Flying Officer (FO) Warwick Addison (later Wing Commander); 407995 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Colin Bentley
Group portrait of members of No. 22 Beaufighter Pilots Training Course RAAF. Identified from left to right, back row: Pilot Officer (PO) Curtis; 401805 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Kenneth Michael Abbot
Members of the crew of a Sunderland aircraft of No. 10 Squadron RAAF at RAF station Mount Batten. This aircraft made an attack on an enemy submarine on 30 April 1943. Back row, left to right: 403746 S
Group portrait of members of No. 23 Beaufighter Pilots Training Course RAAF. Identified from left to right, back row: Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Morton; 432318 Flt Sgt Alexander Woodside McDonald (late
Pouring over a map of Wewak, Beaufort bombing crews of No. 100 (Beaufort) Squadron RAAF yarn over a raid just concluded, while resting in their tents. Left to right: 415620 Flying Officer (FO, later F
Group portrait of No. 4 Intitial training School, RAAF, Course No.B Squadron Flight 7. Back row: D R Jones; 409581 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Robert Alexander Nield (lost on operations over the Netherl
