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| Keywords: Sunderland 10 Sqn RAAF rescueing Wellington crew 1944.jpg A Short Sunderland Mk III EK573/P of No 10 Squadron RAAF on the water after alighting to rescue 3 survivors from a Vickers Wellington of No 172 Squadron RAF clinging to a one-man dinghy seen at right after being shot down in the Bay of Biscay while attacking a German submarine on 26 August 1944 Although it was forbidden for flying boats to alight on the open sea in rescue attempts the pilot of the Sunderland Flight Lieutenant W B Tilley decided the survivors could wait no longer for surface craft to arrive and touched down to pick them up for a safe return to Mount Batten Devon UK A fourth member of the Wellington crew Flying Officer R B Gray RCAF refused to risk the lives of the other survivors by overloading the dinghy although he was seriously injured He succumbed during their fifteen-hour ordeal at sea and was awarded a posthumous George Cross The pilot of the Sunderland of No 10 Squadron RAAF who made the hazardous sea landing and take-off was Flight Lieutenant William Boris Tilley DFC of Melbourne Victoria Australia C 4612 205023345 1 SUK13007 1944-09 Royal Air Force official photographe Image copyright Copyright expired - public domain frame cropped PD-Australia Short Sunderland in Australian service World War II on the Atlantic Ocean Black and white photographs Collections of the Imperial War Museum No 10 Squadron RAAF | ||||
