The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal group portrait of Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Ray Kelly's crew outside their tent just prior to an anti-submarine patrol in their B Flight, 6 Squadron RAAF Lockheed Hudson, A16-177. Left to right: 416128 Sergeant (Sgt) E ‘Archie’ Prime, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner (WAG); 415152 Flt Lt Ray Kelly, pilot; Flying Officer (FO) William (Bill) A Green, navigator and John ‘Itchy’ Warwick WAG. Note the leather crew bags containing maps and charts held by Sgt Prime and in front of FO Green. The crew's mission was to provide anti-submarine cover for the 689-ton Burns Philp-owned British transport MV Muliama which was one of six or seven small merchant ships which had been undertaking a shuttle service between Cairns and Darwin but which, by 10 December 1942, was one of a small convoy of transports moving supplies via Milne Bay to Porlock Harbour near Buna. Muliama was the first allied ship to enter Milne Bay after the Japanese defeat there and continued to supply the Pacific campaign until the end of the war. Hudson A16-177 survived the war and was sold in 1946 and converted to components.
Informal group portrait of the crew of 6 Squadron Lockheed Hudson A16-245 photographed on their return to Turnbull Field. Two days earlier they were forced to ditch the aircraft in Milne Bay approxima
A crew of a Lockheed Hudson aircraft from No 2 Squadron RAAF, alongside one of the other Squadron aircraft (A16-241). Left to right: 411985 Sergeant (Sgt, later Pilot Officer [PO]) Trevor William Bass
One of the Milne Bay locals in the lakatois (outrigger canoes) in which he and others rescued the crew of Lockheed Hudson A16-245 after they were forced to ditch the aircraft in Milne Bay approximatel
A crew of No. 2 Squadron RAAF standing alongside a Squadron Lockheed Hudson aircraft. Left to right: 414214 Sergeant (Sgt) D F Ellis, Wireless Air Gunner (WAG) of Brisbane, Qld; 414206 Sgt B B Daley,
Batchelor, NT. 1942-11. Group portrait of some members (not the entire squadron) of No. 2 Squadron RAAF. Left to right: Back row: Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Allen, wireless air gunner (WAG); Sergeant (
A US PT Boat from the PT base on the southeastern shore of Milne Bay at Kona Kope approaches a makeshift buoy and an oil slick in north eastern Milne Bay which marks the last resting place of A16-245,
