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The Sunderland Mark IV was an outgrowth of the 1942 Air Ministry Specification R.8/42, for a generally improved Sunderland with more powerful Bristol Hercules engines, better defensive armament and other enhancements. The new Sunderland was intended for service in the Pacific.
The Sunderland Blitz was a bombing campaign by the German Luftwaffe against the British city of Sunderland during the larger bombing campaign of Britain from 1940 to 1943. Sunderland was an important ship building city and port during World War II. 273 civilians were killed and 838 injured during the bombing. Bombing of the city began on 21 ...
With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Sunderland was a key target of the German Luftwaffe bombing. Luftwaffe raids resulted in the deaths of 267 people and destruction of local industry [64] while 4,000 homes were also damaged or destroyed. [65] Many old buildings remain despite the bombing that occurred during World War II. [66]
The last Sunderland on detachment in Fiji was flown back to Hobsonville on 2 April 1967, marking the final operational flight for the type in New Zealand service. [42] It, along with the final Sunderland still in service, was the subject of a successful tender two months later from an Australian firm and broken up after the engines had been ...
The Sunderland, flying on instruments, veered off its planned flight path and crashed into the remote Eagle's Rock [8] at 13:42 GMT. [9] Fourteen of the fifteen crew and passengers, including the Duke of Kent, died in the crash. Sergeant Andrew Jack was the sole survivor. [10] [11] The crash site memorial at Eagle's Rock.
No. 40 Squadron also undertook air sea rescue duties on several occasions. On 20 March 1945 a Sunderland located the survivors of a crashed C-47 and dropped them a dinghy. The Sunderland rediscovered the survivors the next day after contact was lost with them overnight, and maintained position over the dinghy until Allied naval vessels reached ...
No. 10 Sqn. SP-2H with a USN P-5 and a RNZAF Sunderland in 1963. No. 10 Squadron was re-formed at Townsville on 1 March 1949 to increase the RAAF's reconnaissance capability. Operating modified Lincoln heavy bombers the squadron conducted maritime and anti-submarine patrols over northern Australia and the South Pacific.
In 1958 the station was closed and the airfield became Sunderland Airport. Following the closure of the airport in 1984, the site has since been redeveloped as a manufacturing facility for Nissan cars – Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK , and as the location of an aviation museum, the North East Land, Sea and Air Museums (NELSAM).