At 19 years of age, my Father (on the right) was a wireless operator/air gunner (WAG) with 459 Squadron RAAF - The Desert Scorpians, on Hudsons, Venturas and Baltimores (below).
Based in the Middle-East, mostly Egypt, 459 Sqaudron's operations ranged from anti-submarine and convoy escort patrols in the Mediterranean to low-level anti-shipping strikes and formation bombing raids.
Sir Bob Norman, the founder of Bush Pilots, was a pilot with 459 Sqdn.
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