The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
One of the six large aircraft, which included two Flying Fortresses and a Liberator, destroyed on the aerodrome in the Japanese air-raid on the town on 3rd March 1942. Most of these aircraft had just arrived from the Netherlands East Indies carrying refugees who were still aboard them. 88 people were killed in the raid, including women and children, and probably as many again wounded. Fourteen flying boats in the harbour were also destroyed.
Although the photograph was previously thought to be of a B24 Liberator, detailed analyisis shows a number of features which indicate the aircraft is probably a Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force Lockheed Lodestar, registration number LT-918. These features include: the presence of undercarriage in the engine nacelle (whereas the Liberator's undercarriage retracted into the wing between the two wing engines) the absence of an engine outboard of the nacelle which carries the undercarriage (thereby indicating that the aircraft is a twin engined aircraft); the presence of Fowler flap rails protruding from the trailing edge of the wing (common to Lockheed Lodestars and Hudsons), and the presence of a Dutch tricolour under the port wing.
(Original print housed in the AWM Archive Store).
The burnt out remains of what was probably a Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force DC-3 destroyed on the ground in the Japanese air-raid on the town on 3 March 1942. The DC-3, PK-ALO, was one of six
A pall of smoke rises from the burning remains of an aircraft on the aerodrome at Broome, following the the Japanese air-raid on the town on 3rd March 1942. The aircraft is probably a B-24A Liberator
The burnt out remains of a B-17 Flying Fortress, one of the six large aircraft, which included two Flying Fortresses and a B-24 Liberator, destroyed on the ground in the Japanese air-raid on the town
A B-24A Liberator aircraft (B-24A 40-2473) damaged on the aerodrome in the Japanese air-raid on the town on 3rd March 1942. The aircraft was one of six large aircraft destroyed on the ground in the r
BROOME, WA. 3 MARCH 1942. THE REMAINS OF ONE OF EIGHT LARGE AIRCRAFT, WHICH INCLUDED TWO FLYING FORTRESSES AND TWO LIBERATORS, DESTROYED ON THE AERODROME IN THE JAPANESE AIR-RAID ON THE TOWN. SIXTEEN
NEW IRELAND, 1945-10. A NEW ZEALAND AIR FORCE OFFICER INSPECTS THE GRAVE OF A CREW MEMBER OF CRASHED RNZAF LOCKHEED VENTURA AIRCRAFT NZ4613. THE STARBOARD WING AND ENGINE NACELLE OF THE AIRCRAFT LIE I
