41-2536
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UPL 37417
Still image from short film Men of the Sky, shot at at Hamilton Field, CA early 1942.
personal collection
Delivered MacDill 29/1/42; Assigned 28BS/19BG Hawaii 3/42; transferred 43BG Melbourne, Aus.; damaged Rabual 7/8/42 with J. Doherty, (gunner Killed in Action); Missing in Action in Japanese shipping raid off Lae, New Guinea 22/11/42, with John Frost (65BS/43BG), Co-pilot: Bob Guenther, Navigator: P/O Alan Fairfax (RAAF), Bombardier: Frank Colburn, Gerald Shaughnessy, Roger Feind, Carl Griffin, Arnold Osborn, Paul Paulson, David Thomas (10 Killed in Action) and crashed in sea. No trace or MACR. (6 chutes seen off Lae).