AWM caption : Australia: Northern Territory, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenton_Airfield" class="extiw" title="en:Fenton Airfield">Fenton Airstrip (NT)</a>. Group portrait of a crew of eleven beside a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-24_Liberator" class="extiw" title="en:B-24 Liberator">Consolidated B-24 Liberator</a> bomber of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._21_Squadron_RAAF" class="extiw" title="en:No. 21 Squadron RAAF">No. 21 Squadron RAAF</a>. All eleven crew members were killed when their Liberator ditched into Vansittart Bay off Western Australia on 23 March 1945.<br><p>Identified from left to right in the back row are:
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<ul><li>250759 Squadron Leader Nathaniel Ivan Straus of East Malvern, Victoria</li>
<li>427775 Flight Sergeant Harry James Boyd of Pomborneit North, Victoria</li>
<li>426733 Flying Officer (FO) Raymond Allenby Whiting of Ascot, Queensland</li>
<li>404485 Flight Lieutenant Charles David Parry-Okeden of Chinchilla, Queensland</li>
<li>416215 FO John Wilson Hursthouse of Elbow Hill, South Australia</li>
<li>401748 Warrant Officer (WO) William Richard Flanagan of Warrandyte, Victoria</li></ul><p>Front row, from left to right are:
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<ul><li>408591 WO Herbert Gordon Parker of Cootamundra, NSW</li>
<li>46563 Sergeant (Sgt) Ronald Malcolm Morris of Wagin, Western Australia</li>
<li>121592 Sgt Alexander Douglas Whitehead of Jervois, South Australia</li>
<li>436889 Sgt William Anthony Jordan Rodgers of Albany, Western Australia</li>
<li>422716 Sgt John Richmond Ryan of Bondi, NSW</li></ul>
not stated
1945-03
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