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March 15th, 1945 – March 25th, 1945
Three B-24’s of the RAAF 200 (Special Duties) Flight. Their mission is to drop a party of eight Z Special Unit personnel, a British Special Operations Executive officer, Major Henry. E. Ellis and equipment near Bario, Sarawak, in Malaysia.
After several attempts two B-24’s drop a party of the eight Z Special Unit personnel and equipment near Bario. However, the aircraft flown by No. 200 Flight’s commanding officer, Squadron Leader Harold Graham Pockley, disappears on its way back to base, resulting in the loss of the 11-man crew and a British Special Operations Executive officer, Major Henry. E. Ellis. The two remaining Australian Liberators and United States Navy aircraft search for the B-24 for two days but do not locate the wreckage. The men killed are:
Crew B24 Liberator
- Squadron Leader H.G. Pockley (Pilot)
- Flight Officer C.I. Cox (2nd Pilot)
- Flight Lieutenant D.P. Gradwell
- Flight Officer R.R. Farme
- Flight Officer L.F. Day
- Sergeant R.R. Hale
- Sergeant K.M. Low
- Sergeant C.K. Ponting
- Sergeant K.C. Wilmshurst
- Sergeant E.M. Litchfield
- Sergeant L.E. Tonkin
Special Operations Executive
- Major H.E. Ellis
No. 200 Flight continues supporting Z Special Unit’s operations around Bario for the next few months and eventually fly in thirty of the forty-two personnel involved.
April 15th, 1945 – April 16th, 1945
Operation Semut 2. Three aircraft of RAAF 200 (Special Duties) Flight. The operation is under command of Major G. S. Carter, a New Zealander serving in the Australian Army. Their mission is to gather intelligence and train the indigenous people in launching guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in the Baram Valley in Borneo.
The aircraft drop the men and their supplies successfully.
After this successful mission, the flight conducts over thirty more operations to drop Allied Intelligence Bureau personnel and supplies in Borneo, Ambon, Lombok, Sumatra, and Timor in Dutch Indonesia.
May 17th, 1945
Operation Sunbaker. One B24 of the RAAF 200 (Special Duties) Flight is possibly shot down during operations and crashes over, Dili, Timor. Eleven crew members and five Z Special Unit members are killed. The dead are:
Crew B24 Liberator
- Flight Officer A. McL. Clark (Captain)
- Flight Lieutenant H.R. Campbell
- Flight Lieutenant J.W. Rice
- Flight Officer T.T. Biltoft
- Flight Officer H.J. Clark
- Flight Officer H.A.J. Jones
- Flight Officer L.J. Brown
- Flight Officer G.M. Manning
- Flight Sergeant C.A.R. Gamble
- Sergeant H. Riley
Z Special Unit
- Lieutenant A.F. Wilkins
- Sergeant K.H. Bell
- Corporal A.L. Lilya
- Corporal J.A. Nicol
- Sergeant K.M. Marshall
May 21st, 1945
Operation Agas 2. One B24 of the RAAF 200 (Special Duties) Flight crashes off the coast of north Borneo. Eleven crewmembers and three Z Unit members are killed.
Crew B24 Liberator
- Flight Lieutenant K.R.N. Emmett (Captain)
- Flight Lieutenant J.O. Graham
- Flight Officer R.L. Taylor
- Flight Officer R.N. Walker
- Flight Officer E.F. Theyer
- Warrant Officer E.T. Shorter
- Warrant Officer P.H. Cormack
- Warrant Officer R. Proudlock
- Flight Sergeant J.C.W. Anderson
- Flight Sergeant O.W.J. Davern
- Sergeant L.J. Starr
Z Special Unit
- Captain T.I. Eltham
- Lieutenant L.A. McLaren
- Private. K.L. Hardie
May 1945 – Mid-October 1945
No. 200 Flight continues to operate beyond the end of the war on August 15th, 1945, dropping Allied Intelligence Bureau operatives and supplies.
Mid-October 1945 – December 15th, 1945
The unit transports Allied Intelligence Bureau personnel from Bougainville Island and Finschafen in New Guinea back to Australia, as well as to conduct courier flights. No. 200 Flight’s final sorties are dedicated to dropping leaflets, and