The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 miles from Benson, Oxfordshire, to Karachi, in an overall time of twelve hours twenty-five minutes at the mean average speed of 378 mph was completed by an RAF Mosquito aircraft piloted by Sqn Ldr K. J. Newman DFC and BAR and his navigator Warrant Officer R. E. Smith DFM. The Mosquito, which was a standard reconnaissance aircraft, carried full camera equipment. Three other Mosquito aircraft which had left Britain a day earlier also made the flight in less than thirteen hours.
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
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
Arakan, Burma. c. July 1944. Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) D. K. McDonald DFC of Kogarah, NSW (right centre, with hands on knees) describes the installation of a 500lb bomb beneath the mainplane of a Thun
Karachi, India. c. 1945. At the Transit Camp Sergeant J. P. Stafford of Newmarket, and of a Movement Control Unit, shows Corporal R. Vicerstaff of Ashington how to put up his mosquito net. The first o
Burma. c. 1 May 1945. Group Captain H. P. Pleasance DFC and Bar, the Allied Air Forces Assault Force Commander (centre without hat), briefs RAF officers for D-Day on Rangoon. Preparations for the taki
