Tuesday, December 17, 2013

DRAMATIC WARTIME PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION

*Interesting  photographs sent to  Little Darwin  from  Kiwiland  contacts .Top shot is  the scene  after a Liberator  with  Australian  and  US Servicemen aboard overshot the runway  at  Rockhampton Airfield on  a  flight to  Brisbane , in  l944,  killing all aboard , the  victims  buried in  the  Rockhampton War Cemetery. Above : Torres  Strait Light Infantry  Battalion on  parade in  l945. More photographs  from  the  collection will  be  run  over  the  coming  year. 

UPDATE : A reader has  provided additional and  differing information about the  Liberator prang... The bomber B-24J-170-CO Liberator number 44-40601 known as Burma of the 424th Bomb Squadron, 307th Bomb Group, 13th Air Force, overshot the runway at Connor Park Airfield, Rockhampton on 2 April 1945 and ended up in Lion Creek. Five crewmen were injured in the crash.