The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Near Poretta, Corsica, France. May 1944. The shattered remains of a giant Avro Lancaster bomber aircraft which, with two engines shot up over Munich, crossed the Alps, Italy and the Mediterranean on the other two engines to land on a Mediterranean island. The pilot was a RAAF airman, 414828 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) L. N. Rackley of Cooparoo, Qld.
Near Poretta, Corsica, France. May 1944. The shattered remains of a giant Avro Lancaster bomber aircraft which, with two engines shot up over Munich, crossed the Alps, Italy and the Mediterranean on t
Portrait of 424162 Sergeant (Sgt) Maxwell Dunbar RAAF, wearing a Sidcot training suit,a leather helmet fitted with Gosport speaking tubes and goggles. Sgt Dunbar, a postal clerk from Dubbo NSW, enlist
Near Poretta, Corsica, France. May 1944. The shattered remains of a giant Avro Lancaster bomber aircraft which, with two engines shot up over Munich, crossed the Alps, Italy and the Mediterranean on t
Near Poretta, Corsica, France. May 1944. Informal portrait of 414828 Flight Sergeant L. N. Rackley of Cooparoo, Qld, pilot, whose Avro Lancaster with two engines shot up, managed to fly on after a rai
Near Poretta, Corsica, France. May 1944. Informal portrait of 414828 Flight Sergeant L. N. Rackley of Brisbane, Qld (right), pilot, and Sergeant S. Jones of Southport, Lancashire, England flight engin
Italy. May 1944. The grave of 424162 Flight Sergeant Maxwell Dunbar RAAF of 630 Squadron RAF who was killed in the crash of an Avro Lancaster bomber aircraft in Corsica. Aged 21 he was from Dubbo NSW.
Poretta, Corsica, France. May 1944. Supermarine Spitfire aircraft of No. 451 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF, operating from a base in Corsica. On its first operation this fighter squadron shot down a Messer
Poretta, Corsica, France. May 1944. Two P38 Lockheed Lightning aircraft make a good take off from a landing field used by No. 451 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF. The squadron is operating from a forward Med
