Territory Stories

Launch 05/799

Details:

Title

Launch 05/799,

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Melville Bay,

Nation of service

Australia,

Service

Air Force,

Service branch

Rescue,

Unit

Launch 05/799,

Date arrived in NT

1943-11-18,

History

Launches were used for torpedo recovery, substitute rescue, supply and transport to catalinas.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Royal Australian Air Force, Air Force, Australia, Rescue launch, Torpedo recovery transport, Launch 05/799,

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Australian War Memorial,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C256831 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 134503, Second World War, 1939-1945], https://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/RAAF_01-02_TO_R_C_STONER.pdf [RAAF Launch 05/799 p.34],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844684,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844948