LEFT: Carl Silber Jnr, son of Captain Carl H. Silber, prepares for the trip, with pilot Lt Mick Whitney, 5 Avn Regt. The Army provided a Black Hawk for the wreath laying ceremony. The crash site is shrouded in thick jungle, which meant the wreath was dropped from the Black Hawk as it flew overhead

Right: Joan Riggs-Parker, of California, USA, drops a wreath on to the crash site of the ‘Texas Terror’ on December 18, 2002, 60 years to the day the Liberator aircraft crashed on Hinchinbrook Island in 1942, killing her father, Col C.G Riggs, United States Air Force, and 11 others.

Maj Jim Cosgrove pauses in silence at the Remembrance Day service held at the Robertson Barracks chapel, Darwin. The service gave soldiers a chance to commemorate the many brave Australian and Allied men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their country.
Photo by Cpl Ashley Roach, 1JPAU(P)