The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A makeshift buoy and an oil slick marks the position where 6 Squadron Lockheed Hudson A16-245 sank after ditching 360 metres off the northern shore of Milne Bay in approximately 15-20 metres of water after poor weather delayed the aircraft long enough for it to run out of fuel, forcing pilot 415152 Flt Lt Ray Kelly to perform a ditching nearly 60 kilometres from base. After watching their plane sink, after floating for five minutes, (and after spending 15 minutes in the water). The four crew were rescued by locals in lakatois (outrigger canoes). They were eventually picked up by a US PT Boat from the nearby PT base at Kona Kope, and taken to the Asheville class patrol gunboat, USS Tulsa, which returned them to Turnbull Field the following day.
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,
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
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 US Elco PT Boat anchored, at Kona Kope, next to the Asheville class patrol gunboat, USS Tulsa, at their PT base at Kona Kope. The PT boat has just returned from rescuing four crew members of A16-245
A delayed action device, commonly called a drip rifle, invented by Lance Corporal William Charles Scurry (later Captain W C Scurry MC DCM) of the 7th Battalion, AIF, for firing a rifle by means of wei
A flight of three Lockheed Hudson aircraft from No. 23 Squadron RAAF based at Amberley. Nearest camera is A16-3 flown by 22 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Phillip Walter Howson, OBE. In the centre is A16
