Territory Stories

Airmail

Details:

Title

Airmail,

Photo number

PH0283/0025,

Collection

Bill Allcorn Collection., PictureNT, PictureNT,

Date

0000-00-00,

Description

Kingsford Smith handing over first experimental, England to Australia airmail, to Hurtle Bald. The mail was retrieved from Koepang NEI after Imperial airways DH66 Hercules G-EBMW "City of Cairns" crashed there on 14 April. Kingsford Smith flew Fokker F.VIIB/3m VH-USU "Southern Cross" Australian National Aisways. Bald was killed in the first Japanese air raid attack on Darwin on 19 February 1942.,

Notes

Date: Unknown,

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0),

Copyright owner

Library & Archives NT,

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/33856,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/33856

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/313565,