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Article: FED: Military funeral for WWII airmen
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- January 12, 1999
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AAP General News (Australia)
01-12-1999
FED: Military funeral for WWII airmen
CANBERRA, Jan 12 AAP - Two Australian airmen killed in a World War II plane crash in Papua
New Guinea will be laid to rest there with full military honours tomorrow, more than 50 years
after they died.
RAAF Flight-Lieutenant Denis Jack Unkles and army observer Lieutenant John Rawden
Fetherstonhaugh, took off in a Wirraway aircraft from the Gusap airstrip on April 15, 1944,
for a reconnaissance flight over the Wantoat area.
They ...