The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Karachi, India. c. 1945. Warrant Officer R. E. Smith DFM, navigator of Little Waltham, Essex (left), and the pilot, Squadron Leader K. J. Newman DFC and Bar of Auckland, NZ, leave the record breaking RAF Mosquito aircraft on arrival at Mauripur airfield.
Karachi, India. c. 1945. Squadron Leader K. J. Newman DFC and Bar of Auckland, NZ (left), is being welcomed by Group Captain T. N. Evans, the Commanding Officer at Mauripur airfield. A flight of 4700
Karachi, India. c. 1945. The navigators of three of the RAF Mosquito aircraft on Mauripur airfield. Left to right: Warrant Officer (WO) F. J. Baylis; WO R. E. Smith DFM; Flying Officer L. G. E. Grover
Karachi, India. c. 1945. Group portrait of the pilots and navigators of the four RAF Mosquito aircraft which made the flight from Benson to Karachi in under thirteen hours on Mauripur airfield. Left t
Arakan, Burma. c. 1945. Back with his RAF Mosquito aircraft squadron which he commands on the Arakan front, Wing Commander (Wg Cdr) A. E. Saunders, the man who was first into Rangoon, shows his ground
India. c. 1945. Group Captain S. G. Wise DFC of Worcester Park, Surrey, the Commanding Officer of the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU), left, with Air Marshal W. A. Coryton CB MVO DFC, and Colon
Karachi, India. c. 1945. These reinforcements are checking in at the Orderly Room at the Transit Camp where they collect bedding, and mosquito nets for their short stay. The first of many reinforcemen
