John “Skip” Bailey

9.0
Ditching and Capture by the Japanese

The ditching was told in a statement by Flight Officer Allan Mervyn Brown, one of the crew, to investigators of the Casualty Repatriation Section of the RAAF, after the war.

Statement by Allan Mervyn Brown [30]

No reason has been found to indicate the damage suffered by A9-244 prior to ditching but it is assumed enemy flak and subsequent mechanical failure, sustained during the bombing mission, was the cause.

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[30] National Archives of Australia