Story appeared in a recent Washington Post newspaper on the loss of a B-17C at Bakers Creek, Australia on June 14, 1943. It appears that 35 passengers and 5 crew were lost in the crash that was kept hushed up during the war and then sort of forgotten after. The journo who wrote the story, Don Phillips, is or was the Post aviation reporter and is very, very good.
Questions for PPRUNERs in Oz : Is this still the worst air accident on record there? Does anybody other than the locals of Bakers Creek know or care about it?
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/art...2003Jun11.html