Beautiful Betsy first saw action in 1943, in a raid on Timor; the following year, after only 25 missions, she suffered mechanical stress during a storm and was retired from combat duty.

No one aboard the Liberator seemed to be aware their last moments had arrived. The Beautiful Betsy memorial plaque at Kroombit Tops. Picture: Norman Fraser Eight good men, all servicemen ...

In 1945, an American Liberator bomber named 'Beautiful Betsy' crashed into what is now called the Kroombit Tops National Park. The wreckage was lost for 50 years in the rainforest but was ...