THE wreckage of an RAAF Spitfire aircraft, which crashed into Litchfield bushland during World War II, has been gifted to the NT Government by the Commonwealth The downed aircraft crash-landed in 1943 ...
The Spitfire was shot down in World War II action and crashed in May 1942 near the village of Hardifort. The plane and the skeletal remains of its pilot were dug up from beneath five metres of soil by ...
Almost 70 years after the 24-year-old RAAF airman was listed missing in action, his remains have been buried during a moving service with full military honours. Sergeant Smith's brother Bert, younger ...