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Darwin, NT. c. September 1945. A Consolidated Catalina aircraft of No. 42 Squadron RAAF, tying up to a buoy at Doctor's Gully after picking up from a Japanese hospital survivors from the United States Army Air Forces who were flying in a Douglas C47 transport aircraft which crashed into the sea. The survivors, washed ashore on Jamdena Island in the Tanimbar Group, were Captain Otto Leipske of Waukesha, Wisconsin, pilot; Lieutenant Howie Crothers of Little Rock, Arkansas, 2nd pilot; Captain John Rodof of Tulsex, Oklahoma, a passenger; Sergeant Frank Termin of Borger, Texas, radio operator; and Corporal Eugene Janicker of Cameron, Texas, an engineer.
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
Darwin, NT. c. September 1945. Survivors coming ashore in a RAAF launch, no. 011-12, with a crew of a Catalina aircraft of No. 42 Squadron RAAF, after they had been picked up from a Japanese hospital.
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
Near Flores Island, Netherlands East Indies. 1945-04-06. A RAAF Catalina piloted by Flight Lieutenant Corrie lands to pick up survivors from a downed RAAF Consolidated B24 Liberator bomber aircraft fr
At Sea. 1943-05-11. 408662 Flight Lieutenant M. K. McKenzie of Ballarat, Vic, was captain of Sunderland aircraft W.4004 "Z/10" of No. 10 Squadron RAAF which, while on anti-submarine patrol on 1943-05-
View from a 10 Squadron, RAAF, Sunderland circling the sinking SS Geraldine Mary, (of the A.N.D Company). The ship departed Botwood, Newfoundland, under the command of Captain George McCartney Sime on
