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NEW GUINEA. DESPITE BOTH ELEVATORS BEING BADLY DAMAGED BY ACK ACK FIRE AND SHRAPNEL HAVING TORN THE TYRES OF BOTH LANDING WHEELS TO THE CANVAS, A FLYING FORTRESS WAS FLOWN 400 MILES TO ITS BASE IN NEW GUINEA, AND LANDED SAFELY. THE PILOT WAS 1ST LIEUT. JAMES C. DIOFFONDERFER OF LOGAN VIRGINIA. THIS PICTURE SHOWS THE DAMAGED ELEVATORS. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN).
NEW GUINEA. DESPITE BOTH ELEVATORS BEING BADLY DAMAGED BY ACK ACK FIRE AND SHRAPNEL HAVING TORN THE TYRES OF BOTH LANDING WHEELS TO THE CANVAS, A FLYING FORTRESS WAS FLOWN 400 MILES TO ITS BASE IN NEW
NEW GUINEA. LIEUT. GENERAL GEORGE KENNY JUST AFTER DECORATING 2ND LIEUT. VICTOR FRANCO, ROCHESTER, PENN., WITH SILVER STAR AND SQUADRON COMMANDER WILLIAM BENN, WASHINGTON PENN., WITH THE DISTINGUISHED
Monfalcone, Italy. C. 1945-04. During an attack on shipbuilding yards at Monfalcone in north-east Italy, an RAF Liberator aircraft was hit by bombs falling from an aircraft above damaging the inner po
Beaufort crew of No. 100 Squadron RAAF which took part in a raid on Gasmata, Dutch New Guinea, and returned safely despite anti-aircraft (ack ack) damage severing the elevator control of their aircr
NOEMFOOR ISLAND, DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 1944-08-09. PORTRAIT OF 405738 FLYING OFFICER T. R. JACKLIN OF MACKAY, QLD, AND NO. 75 SQUADRON RAAF, STEPPING OUT OF HIS DAMAGED KITTYHAWK AIRCRAFT WHICH HE PILOTED
NOEMFOOR ISLAND, DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 1944-11-03. 411271 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT D. BAKER, MANLY, NSW, A PILOT OF NO. 78 (KITTYHAWK) SQUADRON RAAF AT NOEMFOOR WHO HAD TO FLY 180 MILES BACK TO HIS BASE WHEN HIS
