Operation Sunbaker

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.[1]

The dead were:[2] 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

References

1. Silver p 240
2. http://www.ozatwar.com/200flight.htm

Notes

• Silver, Lynette Ramsay (1990). The Heroes of Rimau: Unravelling the Mystery of One of World War II's Most Daring Raids Hardcover. Birchgrove, New South Wales: Sally Milner Publishing. ISBN 9781863510530.
• "The Official History of the Operations and Administration of] Special Operations - Australia [(SOA), also known as the Inter-Allied Services Department (ISD) and Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD)] Volume 2 - Part 1 page 53". National Archives of Australia. p. 131.