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Aviation show at the Mallala RAAF Base 1955 formerly No 6 Service Flight Training School during WW2.
Bristol Freighter
Mallala Airshow September 1955 Valiant B1 flyover
V2 rocket
Bristol Sycamore Helicopter
Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Mustangs of ‘City of Adelaide’ 24 Squadron at Mallala in 1956.
Mustangs of RAAF 77 sqn who where on occupation duties in Japan and where due to return to Australia where the first non-American UN unit to deploy in the Korean war flying their first mission from Iwakuni on 2 July 1950 six days after the conflict started. 77 sqn was specifically requested by General Douglas MacArthur as the Mustang was considered the best long-range ground-attack aircraft in the theatre and USAF General Stratemeyer advised that77 Squadron where the best Mustang outfit in Japan. Wing commander Lou Spence who led the sqn and who had won the DFC flying Kittyhawks in the Western desert was KIA on a low level strafing run on the 9 September 1950. He had been appointed to the American Legion of Merit (1950), and was posthumously awarded the American Air Medal and a Bar to his D.F.C. Lieutenant General George Stratemeyer, commander of Far East Air Forces, praised him as 'one of the noblest and finest officers of any service' he had ever known.
Government Aircraft Factory 694 Lincoln Mk30A built at fishers Bend, Port Melbourne , one of 73 built, A73-34, this plane was delivered in 1948.
Lincoln's of 1 sqn RAAF based in Singapore flew 4000 missions against communist guerrillas from 1950-58 during the Malayan emergency, by the time it was withdrawn to Australia in July 1958 the squadron had dropped over 14,000 tonnes of bombs 85 per cent of the total delivered by Commonwealth forces during the Emergency.
Bristol Freighter
Mallala Airshow September 1955 Valiant B1 flyover
V2 rocket
Bristol Sycamore Helicopter
Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Mustangs of ‘City of Adelaide’ 24 Squadron at Mallala in 1956.
Mustangs of RAAF 77 sqn who where on occupation duties in Japan and where due to return to Australia where the first non-American UN unit to deploy in the Korean war flying their first mission from Iwakuni on 2 July 1950 six days after the conflict started. 77 sqn was specifically requested by General Douglas MacArthur as the Mustang was considered the best long-range ground-attack aircraft in the theatre and USAF General Stratemeyer advised that77 Squadron where the best Mustang outfit in Japan. Wing commander Lou Spence who led the sqn and who had won the DFC flying Kittyhawks in the Western desert was KIA on a low level strafing run on the 9 September 1950. He had been appointed to the American Legion of Merit (1950), and was posthumously awarded the American Air Medal and a Bar to his D.F.C. Lieutenant General George Stratemeyer, commander of Far East Air Forces, praised him as 'one of the noblest and finest officers of any service' he had ever known.
Government Aircraft Factory 694 Lincoln Mk30A built at fishers Bend, Port Melbourne , one of 73 built, A73-34, this plane was delivered in 1948.
Lincoln's of 1 sqn RAAF based in Singapore flew 4000 missions against communist guerrillas from 1950-58 during the Malayan emergency, by the time it was withdrawn to Australia in July 1958 the squadron had dropped over 14,000 tonnes of bombs 85 per cent of the total delivered by Commonwealth forces during the Emergency.
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