Fom left, Duncan Williams, Minister for Heritage Lauren Moss and Air Commodore John Meier at the official handing over by the RAAF to the NT of the wreckage of a Spitfire that crashed in the now ...

The Spitfire was shot down in World War II action ... but the bones of its pilot - identified by tags as W.J. Smith of the RAAF, service number 400942 - were recovered. Officials from the ...

RAAF began the identification process after 6 November 2010, when the wreckage of a Spitfire aircraft, and human remains were recovered in the Orne Estuary, near Ouistreham in Normandy by local ...

An RAAF fighter pilot has finally been farewelled by his family, 70 years after his crippled Spitfire nose-dived into a field in northern France. Sergeant William Smith died when he was shot down ...

Senior RAAF officers and representatives of the French Air Force will attend the service. Discussion is under way about bringing the Spitfire to Australia, even though the plane was owned by the ...

Fred Cowpe, an RAAF Spitfire pilot from Rooty Hill, was just 20 years old as he saw, from his cockpit, General Eisenhower's vast armada swarming towards the Normandy beaches. He watched as a ...

An Australian Spitfire pilot, shot down during World War ... He was from Whittlesea in Victoria and was posted to RAAF 457 Squadron which was attached to Britain's Royal Air Force in WWII.

Fom left, Duncan Williams, Minister for Heritage Lauren Moss and Air Commodore John Meier at the official handing over by the RAAF to the NT of the wreckage of a Spitfire that crashed in the now ...