Thanks Sharpie, for the chance to remember lost friends
I'll drink to that. Thanks Sharpie. I knew former RAF Wing Commander Harold Gibson-Lee who was involved in the Lockheed Hudson crash at Lae in 1950. He lost an engine soon after take off and being overloaded was unable to hold altitude and went in. Although badly burned he survived only to die after being informed of the fate of his passengers. He had flown Vickers Wellesley long range single engine light bombers in the RAF and after the war joined the Sydney Morning Herald Flying Services to fly Hudsons on newspaper deliveries in NSW.