Group portrait of airmen walking past a B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber. Identified is 403609 ...

Accession Number P09690.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Northern Territory, Batchelor
Date made 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of airmen walking past a B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber. Identified is 403609 Sergeant (Sgt) Gordon John Thame (second from right), No 2 Squadron, RAAF. A bank official from Willoughby, NSW prior to enlistment on 3 February 1941, Sgt Thame died on flying operations over Batchelor, Northern Territory on 4 December 1942. He was 30 years of age.

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