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World War I / World War II Pacific Theater

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Royal Navy Royal Australian Navy (RAN)

HMAS AE1  missing September 14, 1914 seventeen crew missing

RNZAF Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)

Anson LT294  pilot Wight crashed January 30, 1944 remains recovered 1961, buried 1965, case resolved

B-24D 42-40967  pilot Beller MIA November 21, 1943, 11 missing including Australian Bevan

Beaufighter A19-33  pilot Woodroffe crashed September 5, 1943
Beaufighter A19-47  pilot Gardiner crashed August 21, 1943
Beaufighter A19-60  pilot Budd crashed May 6, 1943
Beaufighter A19-63  pilot Leithhead crashed August 21, 1943
Beaufighter A19-74  pilot Cosgrove crashed August 11, 1943, wreckage known Le Griffon MIA
Beaufighter A19-97  pilot Stone crashed October 12, 1943, 2 MIA, wreckage found, resolved
Beaufighter A19-118  pilot Gillespie crashed July 24, 1943, wreckage reported, never investigated
Beaufighter A19-133  pilot Glasscock crashed September 19, 1943 wreckage found 1946, case resolved
Beaufighter A19-139  pilot Chapple MIA November 25, 1943 wreckage found 1995, remains recovered, resolved
Beaufighter A19-145  pilot Gaunt crashed November 21, 1943 1 recovered, 1 missing
Beaufighter A19-163  pilot Kerrigan crashed September 18, 1944, 2 MIA
Beaufighter A9-208  pilot Wackett crashed September 24, 1944, wreckage known, 2 missing

Beaufort A9-52  pilot Sage crashed June 26, 1942 wreckage located, remains recovered 1986, case resolved
Beaufort A9-89  pilot Bernard MIA September 28, 1942
Beaufort A9-106  pilot Thewlis crashed January 29, 1945 wreckage located 1990s, remains recovered 1997, case resolved
Beaufort A9-183  pilot Anderson MIA September 5, 1943 remains recovered postwar, resolved
Beaufort A9-186  pilot Wiggins MIA September 5, 1943
Beaufort A9-188  pilot Forrest MIA May 21, 1943, 4 missing
Beaufort A9-197  pilot Yuille MIA February 25, 1943, 4 missing
Beaufort A9-204  pilot Allanson MIA September 5, 1943
Beaufort A9-211  pilot Kenny MIA December 14, 1943
Beaufort A9-217  pilot Chapple MIA November 25, 1943 discovered 2000, remains recovered 2001, case resolved
Beaufort A9-225  pilot Davis MIA July 12, 1943, 4 missing
Beaufort A9-244  pilot Vincent ditched October 21, 1943 crew POW, 1 missing, two executed
Beaufort A9-256  pilot Spooner crashed September 23, 1943
Beaufort A9-374  pilot Woollacott MIA September 5, 1943
Beaufort A9-493  pilot Crisp MIA April 2, 1945, 4 missing
Beaufort A9-518  pilot Parker MIA March 25, 1945 wreckage found 1946
Beaufort A9-571  pilot McLaren ditched May 20, 1944, 2 missing
Beaufort A9-599  pilot Warbrook MIA February 11, 1945
Beaufort A9-625  pilot Dey MIA March 16, 1945, 4 missing, wreckage known
Beaufort A9-667  pilot Fielding MIA April 2, 1945, 5 missing

Boomerang A46-71  pilot Wilson MIA May 1, 1944
Boomerang A46-109  pilot Salter MIA November 26, 1943
Boomerang A46-132  pilot Munro crashed November 26, 1943
Boomerang A46-216  pilot Oxley MIA February 6, 1945

Boston A28-3  pilot Newton ditched March 18, 1943, two POWs, executed, remains recovered, 1 missing
Boston A28-14  pilot Kenway MIA February 9, 1943
Boston A28-15  pilot Dawkins ditched September 12, 1943
Boston A28-21  pilot Smith MIA February 6, 1943
Boston A28-22  pilot McDonald crashed November 26, 1942, 3 missing

Catalina A24-9  pilot Hutchinson crashed January 21, 1942
Catalina A24-11  pilot Davies crashed January 12, 1942, 2 recovered, 6 missing, wreckage known
Catalina A24-18  pilot Norman ditched May 4, 1942
Catalina A24-20  pilot Hemsworth crashed May 6, 1942 nine MIA
Catalina A24-25  pilot Daniell crashed February 28, 1943 wreckage found August 2013, investigated by the RAAF, memorial 2016
Catalina A24-45  pilot Temperley MIA July 20, 1944 wreckage found 1990, remains recovered 1994
Catalina "Maggie" A24-49  pilot Meakin crashed April 28, 1944 nine MIA
Catalina A24-50  pilot Oliver MIA September 2, 1943, 10 missing
Catalina A24-53  pilot Robinson crashed April 21, 1944, 7 recovered, 2 missing
Catalina A24-64  pilot Roberts MIA December 14, 1944, 9 missing

C-47A Dakota A65-56  pilot Beer crashed September 11, 1945 19 missing
C-47A Dakota 42-23698  pilot Hutson crashed August 27, 1943
C-47B Dakota A65-61  pilot Hunter crashed Sept 18, 1945, wreckage located 1967, remains recovered, resolved 2005
C-47B Dakota A65-83  pilot Robinson MIA December 19, 1945

Hudson A16-3  pilot Hemsworth ditched December 26, 1942, 1 missing AIF
Hudson A16-47  pilot Clarke MIA July 23, 1945, 7 missing
Hudson A16-69  pilot McDonald crashed December 10, 1941
Hudson A16-91  pilot Lerew crashed February 11, 1942, 3 missing remains recovered 1944-1946, group burial, resolved
Hudson A16-101  pilot Nicolay crashed March 4, 1942 wreckage found 1946, 4 MIA
Hudson A16-126  pilot Gibson crashed February 11, 1942 wreckage found 2008, 4 MIA
Hudson A16-145  pilot Paterson crashed January 19, 1942, 4 MIA
Hudson A16-165  pilot Erwin crashed March 4, 1942 wreckage located 1946
Hudson A16-169  pilot Burns crashed April 3, 1943 wreckage located 1946 remains recovered, resolved
Hudson A16-181  pilot Lamb MIA August 15, 1943
Hudson A16-191  pilot Cooper crashed May 24, 1942 wreckage known, 4 missing
Hudson A16-195  pilot Williams MIA July 9, 1943 wreckage found postwar
Hudson A16-230  pilot Scott ditched March 27, 1944 crew POW, executed, 1 missing

P-40E Kittyhawk A29-5  pilot Bailey crashed March 28, 1942
P-40E Kittyhawk A29-15  pilot Davies crashed April 13, 1942
P-40E Kittyhawk A29-16  pilot Anderson crashed March 22, 1942
P-40E Kittyhawk A29-19  pilot O'Conner MIA March 27, 1942, 1 missing
P-40E Kittyhawk A29-21  pilot Granville MIA April 18, 1942 remains recovered April 21, 1942
P-40E Kittyhawk A29-38  pilot Brown force landed April 11, 1942 remains recovered 1950
P-40E Kittyhawk A29-47  pilot Cox crashed April 28, 1942
P-40E Kittyhawk A29-100  pilot Shelley MIA August 11, 1942
P-40E Kittyhawk A29-141  pilot Robilliard MIA August 11, 1942
P-40K Kittyhawk A29-201  pilot Sproule force landed August 2, 1943, POW executed August 16, 1943 remains recovered
P-40N Kittyhawk A29-523  pilot Stirling MIA January 27, 1944
P-40N Kittyhawk A29-568  pilot Guster crashed August 23, 1944
P-40N Kittyhawk A29-581  pilot Hattersley MIA November 27, 1944
P-40N Kittyhawk A29-601  pilot Byrnes MIA December 13, 1944, 1 missing
P-40N Kittyhawk A29-641  pilot Bellert crashed October 14, 1944 wreckage discovered 1998, case resolved
P-40N Kittyhawk A29-649  pilot Keyes MIA January 28, 1945
P-40N Kittyhawk A29-821  pilot Summons MIA October 25, 1944
P-40N Kittyhawk A29-824  pilot Schlencker MIA October 1, 1944

Liberator A72-80  pilot Straus crashed March 23, 1945 eight MIA
Liberator A72-92  pilot Hanson crashed July 27, 1945 three crew POW, one MIA
Liberator A72-133  pilot Wawn ditched April 26, 1945 crew POW, three survived
B-24J "Sleepy Time Gal" 42-110120  pilot Harrison crashed October 29, 1944

P-38 Lightning 679  pilot Darcey MIA October 6, 1944

B-25C Mitchell 41-12996  pilot Petersen crashed November 24, 1942 one MIA
B-25D Mitchell A47-3  pilot Slater crashed September 22, 1944
B-25D Mitchell A47-8  pilot Selway crashed November 4, 1944
B-25D Mitchell A47-37  pilot White crashed August 14, 1945
B-25D Mitchell N5-162  pilot Jansen MIA June 23, 1944

S23 "Calypso" A18-11  sunk August 8, 1942 one missing
S23 "Circle" G-AETZ  pilot Purton crashed February 28, 1942
S23 "Camilla" VH-ADU  pilot Bartley crashed April 22, 1943, 7 MIA

Seagull A2-19  pilot Bonython MIA September 11, 1943, two MIA

Spitfire A58-107  pilot Nichterlein crashed June 20, 1943, 1 missing
Spitfire A58-145  pilot Wettenhall crashed December 31, 1943, missing
Spitfire A58-419  pilot Stevenson force landed January 13, 1945, prisoner, died
Spitfire A58-654  pilot Newman crashed August 2, 1945, 1 missing, recovered

Walrus HD865  pilot Smith crashed March 31, 1944, one MIA
Walrus X9559  pilot Bernie destroyed October 25, 1944, two MIA

Wirraway A20-51  pilot Dineen crashed December 11, 1942, 1 missing, recovered
Wirraway A20-179  pilot Lowe MIA February 20, 1942
Wirraway A20-480  pilot Unkles crashed April 15, 1944 wreckage located December 1998, remains recovered
Wirraway A20-485  pilot Smith MIA December 11, 1942 2 missing
Wirraway A20-492  pilot Hart crashed January 17, 1943, resolved
Wirraway A20-506  pilot Ruge crashed June 23, 1942 wreckage Lake Victoria

Vengeance A27-275  pilot Burnell crashed February 24, 1944
Vengeance A27-276  pilot McDonald crashed February 24, 1944, wreckage located 1946, resolved

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