During an attack on a Japanese convoy consisting of the 5,700 ton cruiser "Isuzu" and four smaller vessels near Sumba Island, NEI, this Liberator B-24 bomber aircraft (A72-81) of 24 Squadron, RAAF, flown by 411524, Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) S L McDonald, was set on fire by gun-fire from Japanese fighter aircraft and subsequently crashed into the sea. Flt Lt McDonald and all but one of his crew members perished. 406816 Warrant Officer, Keith Roy Shilling was rescued and flown to Darwin for emergency medical treatment.
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1945-04-05
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