10 November 1944: Royal Australian Air Force F/Lt Arthur Curlewis Young, DFC, of No. 5 Operational Training Unit, RAAF, missing when his Beaufighter, A19-194, collided with Beaufighter A19-36 during a training exercise and crashed into the sea off Evans Head, New South Wales.

F/Lt Young has no known grave and is now commemorated on the Sydney Memorial, New South Wales, Australia...
http://www.airpowerarchaeology.com/view_person.asp?id=1068756

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9 November 1943: Royal Australian Air Force F/Sgt Thomas Charles Hooper of No. 8 Squadron, RAAF, missing when his Beaufort, A9-247, was shot down during a torpedo attack on Japanese shipping in Simpson Harbour, New Britain.

F/Sgt Hooper has no known grave and is now commemorated on the Rabaul Memorial, Papua New Guinea...
http://www.airpowerarchaeology.com/view_person.asp?id=1205420

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