Operation Sunbaker was a military operation by the Services Reconnaissance Department of Australian Army in Timor in May 1945. The aim was to insert a team of operatives behind enemy lines. A B-24 Liberator A72-159 of 200 Flight RAAF taking the team was shot down on 17 May near Dili with the loss of all on board.Silver p 240
The dead were: AIRCRAFT CREW F/O T.T. Biltoft F/Lt. H.R. Campbell F/O H.J. Clark F/O H.A.J. Jones F/Lt. J.W. Rice F/O L.J. Brown F/O A. McL. Clark, DFM (captain) F/Sgt. C.A.R. Gamble F/O G.M. Manning, DFM Sgt. H. Riley
"Z" SPECIAL OPERATION MEMBERS Lt. A.F. Wilkins Sgt. K.H. Bell Cpl A.L. Lilya Cpl J.A. Nicol Sgt. K.M. Marshall
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