NEW GUINEA. 1943-09-29. CRASHED MITCHELL BOMBER "PI JOE" WHICH CRASHED DURING A "TAKE-OFF" LOADED ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1
Accession Number 057287
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Buchanan, Robert John
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

NEW GUINEA. 1943-09-29. CRASHED MITCHELL BOMBER "PI JOE" WHICH CRASHED DURING A "TAKE-OFF" LOADED ONTO A SEMI-TRAILER OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE. IN THIS CRASH BRIGADIER R. B. SUTHERLAND WAS KILLED. NOTE HOLE IN FUSELAGE WHERE A PIECE OF ONE OF THE PROPELLERS PENETRATED THE NAVIGATOR'S CABIN.