The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
BROOME, WA. 1944-06-25. DE HAVILLAND DH-98 MOSQUITO A52-2 AT BROOME ON RETURN FROM A PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHT OVER SOURABAYA, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. THE PORT ENGINE FAILED IN THE TARGET AREA FORCING A RETURN FLIGHT OF NEARLY 1000 MILES ON ONE ENGINE TO THE NEAREST AUSTRALIAN LANDFALL. THE PILOT WAS FLYING OFFICER KENNETH FORD BOSS- WALKER (400076) WITH PILOT OFFICER JEFF LOVE AS NAVIGATOR. THIS CREW WAS ALSO THE FIRST TO DO A MOSQUITO CONVERSION COURSE IN AUSTRALIA AND ALSO CARRIED OUT THE FIRST RAAF MOSQUITO OPERATIONAL FLIGHT IN THE SOUTH WEST PACIFIC AREA FROM COOMALIE CREEK, N.T. TO AMBON NEI AND RETURN ON 1944-06-01 WITH A FLIGHT TIME OF 7 HRS 10 MIN
Distinguished Flying Cross. Engraved reverse with year of issue. 400076 Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Ford Boss-Walker was born in Hobart in 1915 and enlisted in the RAAF on 27 May 1970. After qualifyin
Studio portrait of 400076 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Kenneth Ford (Ken) Boss-Walker DFC, 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit, RAAF (later converted to 87 Squadron, RAAF). Flt Lt Boss-Walker enlisted in
Distinguished Flying Cross. Engraved reverse with year of issue. 400076 Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Ford Boss-Walker was born in Hobart in 1915 and enlisted in the RAAF on 27 May 1970. After qualifyin
Coomalie, NT. 21 March 1945. Returning to their North Western Australia base are 402733 Pilot Officer Allan Davies of Wentworth Falls, NSW (left) and his navigator 439909 Flying Officer J. S. Reynolds
Aerial view of part of the Japanese naval base at Surabaya on the island of Java, taken from 31,000 feet by a camera fitted with a 20 inch lens. This image is one of a series that were the first taken
Aerial view of part of the Japanese naval base at Surabaya on the island of Java, taken from 31,000 feet by a camera fitted with a 20 inch lens. This image is one of a series that were the first taken
Workers clamping fuselage in the production of a DH-98 Mosquito Bomber aircraft at the factory of former furniture maker F Dickin Pty Ltd, a plant at Leichhardt NSW which was employed to produce the r
