Official caption: "RAF Station Mount Batten, Plymouth, England. C. 1944-09. Port engine of a Sunderland aircraft of No. 10 Squadron RAAF operating with RAF Coastal Command."  What the caption doesn't point out is that this is a Pratt & Whitney R-1800.  10 Sqn suggested fitting these engines to boost performance.  The Air Ministry said it couldn't be done, shouldn't be done and musn't be done.  Being Australian they just went ahead and did it.  Strangely enough, the Sunderland Mk V was produced with..... Pratt & Whitney engines!

Sunderland P&W engine

Photo of a actual surrender sign dropped german bombers over tubruk. Australia soldiers were fighting to grab a souvenier

Surrender Aussies

"Probably Port Moresby, New Guinea. c. 1942. An RAAF air gunner sits in the turret of a Sunderland flying boat.."  Another example of Australian ingenuity.  These firing positions appear to be field modifications as they do not resemble the installations on Sunderland Mk I's operating in the UK which had sliding covers and were much further back so they could fire downwards behind the wing.  These are staggered, not side by side and have fixed deflection shields.  The SCARFF ring looks like it was taken from a Hawker Demon and the Vickers .303" gun has been replaced with a Browning .50"  It is even possible that the captioner has misidentified the aircraft and this might be a Short Empire flying boat, not a Sunderland.