The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 miles north of Kuantan) to salvage Hudson aircraft A16-14 which had made a forced landing on a nearby beach. The group includes left to right Flight Sergeant Len McCleay, Sergeant Jack May, Corporal Earn Wheatley, unknown sergeant, Leading Aircraftman George Thomas, unknown local man, unknown local policeman, Les Easther (on bus), Alan Baird, local bus driver (sitting in front). (Donor E. Cooke-Russell)
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 s
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 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 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 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
