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| View Original: | 2 Squadron RAAF Hudson aircrew Hughes NT Feb 1943 AWM NWA0073.jpg (337x450) | |||
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| Keywords: 2 Squadron RAAF Hudson aircrew Hughes NT Feb 1943 AWM NWA0073.jpg AWM caption Australia Northern Territory Hughes Airstrip NT Members of No 2 Hudson Squadron RAAF stand beside their aircraft under light camouflage about to set out on operations <br> Identified personnel are Flight Sergeant R Durbin Sergeant Sgt I Parker Flying Officer FO R Dixon Sgt T D Dargan Sgt F E Boyd The Lockheed Hudson behind them constructor's no 6483 is A16-233 which on 8 September 1943 failed to return from a No 2 Squadron mission code named 'Horse' a reconnaissance patrol in the Tanimbar Islands The following day Hudsons A16-192 -236 and -204 were tasked with completing the mission and to search for the missing Hudson and crew No sightings were made despite a six hour mission The missing crew were FO Lynnton Martin Flight Sergeant Flt Sgt Ralph H Williams Flt Sgt Marcus Wettenhall Flt Sgt Maurice A Graham and Flt Sgt Jack Boanas Post war investigations revealed that A16-233 had been shot down whilst attacking a small Japanese merchant ship north of Tanimbar and that Graham and Boanas had been able to bail out They were captured by the Japanese taken to Toeal on the Kai Island where elements of the Japanese airforce was based at Langgur and later transferred to Ambon where both were executed on 31 October 1943 NWA0073 1943-02 not stated Copyright expired - public domain PD-AustraliaGov Hughes Airfield Northern Territory No 2 Squadron RAAF World War II people of the Royal Australian Air Force World War II forces of Australia in Australia Lockheed Hudson aircrew Lockheed Hudson in Australian service | ||||
