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NEAR WEWAK, NEW GUINEA 1944-11-10. AN RAAF CATALINA RESCUING 5 AMERICAN AIRMEN OF 5TH BOMBER COMMAND COMBAT REPLACEMENT AND TRAINING CENTRE B25 WHICH WAS DOWNED FOUR MILES FROM CAPE WOM. THE CATALINA, PROBABLY A24-92, BELONGED TO RAAF. NO 8 COMMUNICATIONS UNIT STATIONED AT MADANG. ON BOARD WERE; FLIGHT LIEUTENANT I.J.L. WOOD (PILOT), WARRANT OFFICER A.V. DAWSON (2ND PILOT), FLYING OFFICER B.W. BENTLEY (OBSERVER), FLIGHT SERGEANT J.W. RENWOCK (ENGINEER), FLIGHT SERGEANT J. CARWARDINE (2ND ENGINEER), FLIGHT SERGEANT PETER FLETCHER (WIRELESS AIR GUNNER), SERGEANT D.N. BEATON (WND WIRELESS AIR GUNNER), SERGEANT C. THORSBORNE (FLIGHT RIGGER AIR GUNNER),
NEAR WEWAK, NEW GUINEA, 1944-11-10. A RAAF CATALINA RESCUING FIVE AMERICAN AIRMEN FROM A 5TH BOMBER COMMAND COMBAT REPLACEMENT AND TRAINING CENTRE B25 AIRCRAFT WHICH WAS DOWNED FOUR MILES FROM CAPE WO
MOROTAI, NEI, 1945. CATALINA PBY A24-92 OF NO. 113 RAAF AIR-SEA RESCUE FLIGHT WITH THE CREW IN FRONT OF THE AIRCRAFT. FROM THE LEFT ARE: BACK ROW, AIR GUNNER (AG) SERGEANT L. HAY, WIRELESS OPERATOR AI
MADANG, NEW GUINEA. C. 1945-01. IN 1944-12 THE STORY OF THE DRAMATIC RESCUE OF AN AMERICAN AIR-CREW WHICH HAD CRASH-LANDED IN THE SEA IN ENEMY-CONTROLLED WATERS NEAR BORAM IN NORTH EAST NEW GUINEA WAS
Group portrait of a Catalina crew of 11 Squadron RAAF. Identified left to right, back row: 12372 Sergeant (Sgt) George Byron Mclean Lucas (died of illness at Concord NSW on 17 July 1945), Rigger and A
DARWIN, NT. 1944-08-20. CREW OF NO. 20 SQUADRON RAAF CONSOLIDATED CATALINA A24-95 VIEWING THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY AN EXPLOSIVE BULLET THAT PASSED THROUGH A FUEL TANK MISSING FUEL AND OIL LINES ON THEIR F
Cairns, Qld. 1944-01-12. Crew of the Catalina flying boat aircraft, A24-40, of No. 43 Squadron RAAF. Left to right: Sergeant (Sgt) L. R. Field of Forrest Garden, SA, fitter and air gunner; Flying Offi
