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Sweetnam Eric William

Eric William Sweetnam

COLLISION OF TWO BEAUFORTS AT JERVIS BAY , NSW
14 APRIL 1943  

On 14 April 1943, two Beauforts collided with each other over Jervis Bay . They were A9-27 and A9-268 from Base Torpedo at Nowra. They were carrying out a series of dummy runs and torpedo attacks on HMAS Burra-bra for a group of War Correspondents on board the ship.  All eight crew members were killed when both aircraft hit the water.

Born 16^th May 1922 at Hobart to Herbert and Eric Sweetnam

Pilot Officer 408077
Royal Australian Air Force
who died on Wednesday, 14th April 1943. Age 20.

For more information and pictures on this collision go to Peter Dunn’s website

http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/nsw29.htm

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