The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Malaya. c. 1941-07. Informal group portrait of some members of No. 8 Squadron RAAF, sitting on the steps of a building. They are possibly on their way to Kuala Kemasik (46 miles north of Kuantan) to salvage Hudson aircraft A16-14 which had made a forced landing on a nearby beach. Left to right: back row: unknown; third row: Corporal Earn Wheatley (?Ron Quick), Sergeant Jack May, Flight Sergeant Len McCleay; second row: Alan Baird, unidentified Malayan bus driver, Corporal Les Easther; front row: Leading Aircraftman George Thomas.
Malaya. c. 1941-07. Informal group portrait of some members of No. 8 Squadron RAAF standing with local men beside the rear entrance to a local bus. They are probably on their way to Kuala Kemasik (46
Kuala Dungun, Malaya. 1941-07. Two fitters with No. 8 Squadron RAAF, Corporal Les Easther and possibly Sergeant Jack May, watch from the shore as the engine of a crashed Hudson aircraft A16-14 is roll
Kuala Dungun, Malaya. 1941-07. Local men roll the engine of a crashed Hudson aircraft A16-14 down a makeshift gangplank into a barge. The engines were salvaged from the aircraft after it made a forced
Kuala Dungun, Malaya. 1941-07. A RAF truck with a canvas roof is driven off a ferry onto the bank of a river. It was used to carry a party of RAAF fitters involved in the salvage of the engine of Huds
Kuala Kemasik, Malaya. 1941-07. Sid Cooke-Russell, a fitter with No. 8 Squadron RAAF, stands beside the remains of an extensively damaged Hudson A16-14 aircraft embedded in the sand of the beach, 46 m
Kuala Dungun, Malaya. 1941-07. A RAF truck on a ferry with recovered aircraft engine parts behind it from Hudson aircraft A16-14 of No. 8 Squadron RAAF. The aircraft had made a forced landing on the b
