The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Digri, Bengal, India. 1944-11-28. Flight Sergeant Les Adams of Hyde Park, Leeds, England, the half-back in the English Rugby League football team which toured Australia in 1932, inspects an Indian's fishing line. He is now ball gunner in a Liberator bomber aircraft of No. 159 (Liberator) Squadron RAF flown by 422785 Flying Officer V. E. Willing of Rose Bay, NSW. Two other RAAF members in the crew are Warrant Officer W. H. Wheeler of Bellevue Hill, NSW, and 421484 WO A. R. Williams of Bagotville, Richmond River, NSW.
Digri, Bengal, India. C. 1945-03. Group portrait of some of the RAAF members who took part in the 3000 mile world's record bombing mission from an Indian base, standing and sitting on a wing of one of
Digri, Bengal, India. 1944-11-28. Elevated view of members of No. 159 (Liberator) Squadron RAF buying fruit from a hawker. An aircraft, nicknamed 'Black Swan' is in the background.
Digri, Bengal, India. 1944-11-28. Informal portrait of 418187 Flight Sergeant J. V. Shillito, RAAF of Murchison, Vic, a Mid-upper Gunner in No. 159 (Liberator) Squadron RAF operating over the Burma-Th
Digri, Bengal, India. 1944-11-27. Three RAAF members of No. 159 (Liberator) Squadron RAF, with an Indian boy, nicknamed Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Charlie McCarthy, who was adopted by the squadron. He
Digri, Bengal, India. 1944-11-27. 413313 Flying Officer R. V. Lantzke, RAAF of Cooranbong, NSW, a pilot of No. 215 (Liberator) Squadron RAF, writes his letters home while seated in a chair in the wint
Digri, Bengal, India. 1944-11-28. Group portrait of some of the RAAF members in No. 159 (Liberator) Squadron RAF of Eastern Air Command's Strategic Air Force, operating in India, beside the aircraft n
