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Photograph NEA0341 Second World War, 1939-1945Cairns, Qld. 1944-01-09. Rations, including bread, are loaded through a waist blister of a RAAF Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Cairns, Qld. 1944-01-12. RAAF mine-laying Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat, with underwing mines aboard. Catalina aircraft of this type have at some time or other closed nearly every important enemy-held harbour in the South-West Pacific. Once they bottled up a whole battle fleet.
Cairns, Qld. 1944-01-09. Rations, including bread, are loaded through a waist blister of a RAAF Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat.

Cairns, Qld. 1944-01-12. The bowman of a RAAF Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat takes aboard a towline so the flying boat can move to another mooring buoy.

At Sea. 1944-01-09. Interior of a RAAF Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat showing 71335 Sergeant J. G. Weston of Cessnock, NSW, air gunner, cooking Catalina style while in flight during an overnigh

Cairns, Qld. 1944-01-12. RAAF armourers hoist a magnetic mine into place under the wing of a Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat. On wing operating winches are 116127 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) H. Kl

At Sea. 1944-01-09. Interior of a RAAF Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat showing 427100 Flight Sergeant F. N. Lathby of Victoria Park, WA, using an Aldis signalling lamp at the waist position. The

At Sea. 1944-01-09. Interior of a RAAF Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat showing 427100 Flight Sergeant F. N. Lathby of Victoria Park, WA, using an Aldis signalling lamp at the waist position. The
