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Description Darwin, NT. Survivors disembarking from a Consolidated Catalina aircraft, code RK-0, serial no. A24-95, of No. 42 Squadron RAAF, into a RAAF launch, no. 011-12, on arrival at Darwin after they had been picked up from a Japanese hospital. The survivors were from the United States Army Air Force flying in a Douglas C47 transport aircraft which crashed into the sea. The survivors, washed ashore on Jamdena Island in the Tanimbar Group, were Captain Otto Leipske of Waukesha, Wisconsin, pilot; Lieutenant Howie Crothers of Little Rock, Arkansas, 2nd pilot; Captain John Rodof of Tulsex, Oklahoma, a passenger; Sergeant Frank Termin of Borger, Texas, radio operator; and Corporal Eugene Janicker of Cameron, Texas, an engineer.
Date c. September 1945
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