The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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, a 6 Squadron RAAF Lockheed Hudson which was ditched by pilot 415152 Flt Lt Ray Kelly after poor weather delayed the aircraft long enough for it to run out of fuel 60 kilometres from base. After watching their plane sink after it floated for five minutes, and spending 15 minutes in the water, the crew of four were rescued by locals in lakatois (outrigger canoes) and eventually picked up by the PT Boat and taken to the Asheville class patrol gunboat, PG-22, USS Tulsa.
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
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 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
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
CAREENING BAY, WA. 1945. A PAIR OF ONE-MAN SUBMERSIBLE CANOES, KNOWN AS `SLEEPING BEAUTIES', ARE TRANSPORTED IN A SMALL BOAT NAMED `POM POM' DURING Z SPECIAL TRAINING AT THE SERVICES RECONNAISSANCE DE
The happy crew of Lockheed Hudson A16-246 of 6 Squadron RAAF after their return from attacking Japanese destroyers which had been shelling Australian positions in Milne Bay during the final phase of t
