AWM caption : Australia: Northern Territory, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Airfield,_Northern_Territory" class="extiw" title="en:Hughes Airfield, Northern Territory">Hughes Airstrip (NT)</a>. A crew of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Hudson" class="extiw" title="en:Lockheed Hudson">Lockheed Hudson</a> aircraft from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._2_Squadron_RAAF" class="extiw" title="en:No. 2 Squadron RAAF">No 2 Squadron RAAF</a>, alongside one of the other Squadron aircraft (A16-241).<br><p>Left to right:
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<ul><li>411985 Sergeant (Sgt, later Pilot Officer [PO]) Trevor William Bassan, Wireless Air Gunner (WAG) of Woy Woy NSW</li>
<li>411904 Sgt (later Flight Sergeant [Flt Sgt]) Harold Herbert Keith Hadley, WAG of Mona Vale NSW</li>
<li>404524 Pilot Officer (PO, later Flight Lieutenant [Flt Lt]) Fred Ronald Winzar, Observer of Townsville Qld</li>
<li>405637 Flying Officer (FO) Keith Rosslyn Mills, Pilot of Brisbane Qld; 409551 PO (later FO) Noel Edward John of Sydney NSW</li></ul>
All of the above crew, excepting Flt Lt Winzar (who was not part of the flight), were lost as a result of a probable mid-air collision between Hudson aircraft A16-183 and A16-197 on 20 April 1943, flying out of Millingimbi Station NT. The Lockheed Hudson behind them, (constructors no. 6494) is A16-241, which on 28 April 1943, seven weeks after this photograph was taken, failed to return from a search for the crew of a missing Beaufighter. A16-241's crew were FO Ralph R James, Sgt Roy E Norris, PO Ronald D Ryan, Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Kenneth D Keech, Flt Sgt Patrick S Reen, and a member of 2 Squadron's ground crew, Warrant Officer Harry E Cutten.
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1943-03-11
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