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.
The dead were:
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
  • 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