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| Keywords: Flying Officer Norman RAAF AWM VP10646.001.jpg AWM caption Studio portrait of 407006 Flying Officer FO Allan Leslie Norman pilot of 20 Squadron RAAF FO Norman came from South Australia and enlisted in the RAAF on 29 April 1940 While flying a mission in a Consolidated Catalina aircraft on 4 May 1942 he and his crew were shot down by Japanese fighter aircraft near Bougainville and taken captive at a Japanese prisoner of war camp near Rabaul Subsequent to war's end it was determined this crew were all executed by the Japanese Navy around November 1942 and buried in a cemetery Matupi near Rabaul The bodies of FO Norman and his crew were later exhumed and reburied in the Bita Paka Commonwealth War Cemetery in Rabaul in June 1950 P10646 001 circa 1940 1942 not stated Copyright expired - public domain PD-Australia No 20 Squadron RAAF PBY Catalina aircrew World War II people of the Royal Australian Air Force Norman Prisoners of war in Japan in World War II Side caps | ||||
