Keywords: Flight Sergeant Sinclair of 8 Squadron RAAF AWM P10863.001.jpg AWM caption Studio portrait of 405943 Flight Sergeant Flt Sgt James Keith Sinclair 8 Squadron RAAF Flt Sgt Sinclair enlisted in June 1941 aged 20 and qualified as a wireless operator/air gunner He was one of the four-man crew of Bristol Beaufort A9-313 which failed to return to its Goodenough Island base from a bombing mission to Lakunai aerodrome at Rabaul New Britain on 2 January 1944 Subsequent investigations concluded that the aircraft had been damaged by ground fire during the attack probably crashing into the sea on the return journey There were no survivors P10863 001 1942 author Copyright expired - public domain PD-Australia No 8 Squadron RAAF World War II people of the Royal Australian Air Force Sinclair Bristol Beaufort aircrew |