ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 253898
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| Date: | Monday 15 November 1943 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | CAC CA-13 Boomerang |
| Owner/operator: | RAAF |
| Registration: | A46-136 |
| MSN: | 959 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | - |
| Phase: | |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
The Boomerang was flying back to base when a USAAF P-38 Lightning piloted by Lt Gerald R Johnson fired a burst into the port side hitting mainplane and port tailplane with the aircraft lurching to starboard and lost height finally recovering at 500ft but with the port mainplane on fire and cannon ammunition exploding it was traveling too fast to land so the pilot lifted the aircraft over the river at the strip end belly landed into scrub whereupon it burst into flames and was totally destroyed.
Sources:
http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a46.htm
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