*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.
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.
