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Pilot Captain Lewis R. Ambrose (WIA) Northbridge, NSW First Officer Capt. R. Brooke Tapp Passenger 1/Lt Edward O. Hubbard Passenger Pvt Woodrow W. Ravenscroft Passenger ? (MIA) Passenger ? (MIA) Passengers +8 members of 102nd Coast Artillery Crashed March 22 1942 Aircraft History Wartime History Daniel Leahy adds: Mission History After the crash, Tapp reentered the hull and searched for survivors. Two enlisted men [names unknown] of 102nd Coastal Artillery died in the crash. Two members of 102nd Coast Artillery, Lt. Edward Hubbard and Pvt. Woodrow Ravenscroft, were awarded the Soldier's Medal on June 12 for their efforts to rescue other members of their unit following the crash [ read citations ]. First officer Tapp earned a civilian award for their role in the crash. Wreckage In the middle of September 2004, a group of Darwin high school student claimed to rediscover this wreckage. Visibility was poor, the nine students could make out the forward hull of the fuselage, heavily encrusted with coral. In fact, this was just a coral reef. Silvano Jung adds: References Contribute
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