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Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, New Guinea. August 1944. 405875 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Benjamin Bernard (Barney) Newman, GD pilot, seated in the cockpit of the No. 79 (Squadron) RAAF Spitfire Mk Vc A58-167, code UP-? (RAF No. ES249), (formerly coded UP-N in 1943 and UP-H in 1944 before an accident) on Momote airfield. Flt Lt Newman had previously completed a successful tour of operations with No. 41 Squadron RAF (Squadron of St Omer) in the UK, and was killed in action at Wasile Bay, Halmahera Islands, Netherlands East Indies on 2 August 1945 - the last wartime casualty of No. 79 Squadron.
Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, New Guinea. August 1944. Officers of No. 79 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF relaxing with a lakatoi in the sea near their camp in Momote plantation at Southeast Point. Left to
Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, New Guinea. September 1944. Pilots of No. 79 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF and of the 475th (Fighter) Group, 5th US Army Air Force fraternising during a visit by the latter t
Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, New Guinea. August 1944. 280760 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) R. T. (Ron) Susans DSO (Korea) DFC, a Flight Commander in No. 79 Squadron RAAF seated in the cockpit of Spitfi
Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, New Guinea. August 1944. No. 79 Squadron RAAF Spitfire Mk Vc A58-247, code UP-P (RAF No. MH306) in the Squadron's aircraft dispersal and workshops area on Momote airfiel
Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, New Guinea. July 1944. Spitfires Mk Vc of No. 79 Squadron RAAF in the aircraft dispersal and Workshops area on Momote airfield. Left to right: A58-169, code UP-X (RAF No
Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, New Guinea. July 1944. No. 79 Squadron RAAF Spitfire Mk Vc A58-169, code UP-X (RAF No. ES307) in the Squadron's workshops and aircraft dispersal area on Momote airfield.
