MISSION REPORT: 23 February 1945

MISSION REPORT - RESCUES - 02
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23 FEBRUARY 1945
Flight Lieutenant Walter R. Mills, RAAF attached to the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron, departed from Morotai at 1450 and arrived at their destination near the Island of Obinajo, south of the Halmaheras at 1723. Flight Lieutenant Mills sighted a dinghy, landed and effected the rescue of F/O Frances and P/O Haselwood of the 32nd Sq, RAAF. Flight Lieutenant Mills took the life raft aboard and took off in a relatively smooth water at 1740, arriving at Morotai at 1950. The survivors were unhurt and in good condition. They had been in the water about 5 hours.

RESCUED: 32 Squadron - RAAF - F/O Frances, P/O Haselwood

AIRCRAFT: PBY-5A
RAAF SERNO: A24-109
CALLSIGN: Unknown
CREW: (Pilot) Flight Lieutenant Mills, RAAF

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The narrative of these rescues was compiled and published in April 1946 from logbooks of pilots, notes, letters, and other
information by secretary Marina G. de Guzman in Pampanga, Philippines.

* Aircraft produced at Canadian Vickers Ldt, Cartierville, Quebec, Canada
** Canadian Vickers contract number that was unique to each aircraft produced by at the Cartierville, Quebec plan
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