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Momote airfield, Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, New Guinea. August 1944. Flt Lt Benjamin Bernard (Barney) Newman, seated in the cockpit of a 79 Sqn RAAF Spitfire Mk VC, A58-167 (RAF No. ES249), code UP-?, (formerly coded UP-N in 1943 and UP-H in 1944 before an accident) Newman had previously completed a tour of operations with 41 Sqn RAF (Squadron of St Omer) in the UK, and was killed in action at Wasile Bay, Halmahera Islands, Netherlands East Indies on 2 August 1945 - the last wartime casualty of No. 79 Squadron. Photographer: William Robinson
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3/25/2011