Image Gallery: September 2008
26 September 2008
Air Force Hudson Bomber located in Papua New Guinea
An Air Force team will arrive in Papua New Guinea next week to search for the remains of four RAAF airmen whose Hudson bomber was lost during WWII.
A team of nine, including two Air Force Reserve forensic specialists, will travel to an isolated mountain ridge inland from Gasmata, New Britain, where the wreck of Hudson A16-126 was located in thick jungle earlier this year.
Flying Officer Graham Gibson, Pilot Officer Frank Thorn, Sergeant Barton Coutie and Sergeant Arthur Quail were lost with the aircraft on 11 February, 1942 during a sortie against Japanese shipping at Gasmata harbour.
| 20080628raaf00000_0576 Crash site of Royal Australian Air Force World War II Hudson bomber, in Papua New Guinea. (Date taken: 28 June 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20080628raaf00000_0582 Crash site of Royal Australian Air Force World War II Hudson bomber, in Papua New Guinea. (Date taken: 28 June 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20080628raaf00000_0586 Crash site of Royal Australian Air Force World War II Hudson bomber, in Papua New Guinea. (Date taken: 28 June 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20080628raaf00000_0587 Crash site of Royal Australian Air Force World War II Hudson bomber, in Papua New Guinea. (Date taken: 28 June 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20080628raaf00000_0588 Crash site of Royal Australian Air Force World War II Hudson bomber, in Papua New Guinea. (Date taken: 28 June 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20080628raaf00000_0589 Crash site of Royal Australian Air Force World War II Hudson bomber in Papua New Guinea. (Date taken: 28 June 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20080918raaf8205214_0001 Pilot Officer Frank Thorn (left) and Flying Officer Graham Ian Gibson pictured here circa 1941. Both were part of the four man crew of the Hudson aircraft A16-126, that was shot down by Japanese aircraft over Papua New Guinea on 11 February, 1942. (Date taken: 28 June 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20080918raaf8205214_0004 Sergeant Barton Coutie, pictured here circa 1941, was part of the four man crew of the Hudson aircraft A16-126, that was shot down by Japanese aircraft over Papua New Guinea on 11 February, 1942. (Date taken: 28 June 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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