The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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. 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. 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. 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
Warrant Officer (WO) Creighton Jewkes of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, mid-upper gunner (left) and WO Langley Brasier of Boggabri, NSW, rear gunner (right), tell Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Rowley D
Arakan, Burma. c. 1945. Wing Commander (Wg Cdr) Michael Lowrie of Chorley Wood, Hertfordshire (right), and Flying Officer (FO) G. Stevens of The Larches, West Malling, Kent (centre), being supplied wi
Bengal, India. c. January 1945. Group portrait of the crew of an US Navy Air Sea Rescue PBY 5A Catalina flying boat operating from a Bengal Indian base, standing in front of the aircraft. This crew ma
