10 JULY 1943
CRASH OF A BEAUFORT BOMBER
AT BOHLE RIVER AIR STRIP

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Bristol Beaufort

RAAF Beaufort bomber, A9-229, possibly from 8 Squadron, crashed on landing at Bohle River air strip near Townsville in north Queensland on 10 July 1943.

 

REFERENCE BOOK

"Diary of WWII - North Queensland"
 Complied by Peter Nielsen

"Aircraft and Markings of the RAAF 1939 - 1945"
By Geoffrey Pentland

 

NOTE:-  I also received information on this crash from a list of aircraft crashes compiled by Bruce Stewart from a series of books called "Aircraft in Australian Service" by Stewart Wilson.

 

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