The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Upturned Short Sunderland aircraft P9620 of 204 Squadron, RAF, floating in the Atlantic Ocean with an unidentified crew member sitting on the fuselage. The aircraft, with thirteen crew aboard, became lost when the compass was damaged in an electrical storm, eventually running out of fuel and making an emergency landing into the Atlantic Ocean. HMAS Australia rescued nine of the crew, however 744561 Leading Aircraftman Matthew Ewing Towe, RAF; 39866 Sergeant (Sgt) Stuart Hayden MacDonald, RNZAF; 642035 Aircraftman Kenneth William Beavis, RAF, and 755445 Sgt Malcolm Sydney Ross, RAF, were lost at sea. The unidentified crew member seated on the upturned aircraft was not saved.
Members of the crew of a Sunderland flying boat aircraft of No 10 Squadron RAAF at RAF Station Mount Batten, which made an attack on a U-boat on 19 May 1943. Left to right: 27191 Sergeant (Sgt) Philip
Group portrait of a Coastal Command crew of 86 Squadron RAF at RAF Ballykelly. The crew flew a B24 Very Long Range (VLR) Liberator on anti-sumarine patrols over the Atlantic. Rear row, left to right:
Group portrait of a Lancaster aircraft crew of No. 44 Squadron RAF. Left to right, back row: 1816835 Sergeant (Sgt) E. R. Scott RAF, Mid Upper Gunner from Nottinghamshire, England; 1852931 Sgt Roy Cla
PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND. 1943-08-06. CREW OF "K" KATIE, A SUNDERLAND AIRCRAFT OF NO. 10 SQUADRON RAAF IN COASTAL COMMAND BASED AT RAF STATION MOUNT BATTEN. LEFT TO RIGHT: 22167 SERGEANT (SGT) E. J. STAVERT,
Portrait of 420920 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Barry Alan Croft, wireless air gunner of Gulgong, NSW, a member of No. 299 Squadron RAF, an Allied Expeditionary Air Force glider-towing squadron. Flt Sgt
ATLANTIC OCEAN, 1939-1944. GERMAN "E" BOATS UNDER FIRE FROM AN AIRCRAFT OF RAF FIGHTER COMMAND. PHOTO SEQUENCE WAS TAKEN FROM THE AIRCRAFT'S GUN CAMERA. (C.2360A)
