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A No. 76 Squadron P-40 Kittyhawk undergoing maintenance at Kiriwina in January 1944. No. 76 Squadron continued to support Allied operations around New Guinea during 1944. On 17 January it took part in an attack on a Japanese camp near Lindenhafen, New Britain which involved 73 aircraft and was the largest RAAF operation to that point in the war ...
No. 76 Wing headquarters was established at Townsville, Queensland, on 3 January 1944, and moved to Cairns mid-month. [1] Led by Wing Commander Reginald Burrage, [2] [3] it transferred to Darwin, Northern Territory, in September to coordinate and control minelaying operations in the North-Western Area by Nos. 20, 42, and 43 Squadrons.
Three Kittyhawks from No. 76 Squadron RAAF landed on the airstrip on 22 July, while additional aircraft from No. 76 and also No. 75 Squadron RAAF arrived on 25 July. [25] They found that only 4,950 by 80 feet (1,509 by 24 m) of the 6,000-by-100-foot (1,829 by 30 m) runway was covered with Marston Matting, and that water was frequently over it ...
No. 76 Squadron Handley Page Halifax B.I at RAF Middleton St. George The squadron reformed shortly on 30 April 1940 at RAF West Raynham as a Hampden unit before being disbanded on 2 May 1940. [ 4 ] On 1 May 1941, the squadron reformed properly at RAF Linton-on-Ouse as the second Handley Page Halifax bomber squadron, part of the newly created No ...
76 Squadron, 76th Squadron or No. 76 Squadron may refer to: No. 76 Squadron RAAF, a unit of the Royal Australian Air Force; No. 76 Squadron RAF, ...
Truscott, Squadron Leader No. 76 Squadron RAAF at Milne Bay, New Guinea, in September 1942. Truscott was promoted to Commanding Officer in June 1942 before being posted back to the RAAF in Australia after the Bombing of Darwin , and he joined No. 76 Squadron , flying Kittyhawks .
Royal Australian Air Force General Dynamics F-111G, A8-291, of 6 Squadron crashes about 2230 hrs. while on exercises in Malaysia. Believed to have hit one of two peaks on small island Pulua Aur, off the east coast of the Malay Peninsula, and then crashed into the South China Sea. The two crew, Sqn. Ldr. Steve Hobbs and Flt. Lt. Anthony Short ...
No. 31 Squadron RAAF (Bristol Beaufighter) No. 78 (Fighter) Wing RAAF No. 75 Squadron RAAF (Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk) No. 78 Squadron RAAF (Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk) No. 80 Squadron RAAF (Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk) No. 452 Squadron RAAF (Supermarine Spitfire) No. 82 (Bomber) Wing RAAF No. 21 Squadron RAAF (Consolidated B-24 Liberator) No. 23 Squadron ...