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🇦🇺 𝘙𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘪𝘳 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 (𝘙𝘈𝘈𝘍) 𝘌/𝘈-18𝘎 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘭𝘺𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘵 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭'𝘴 𝘙𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦 2025.

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"The Day Begins" by Artist Mark Donoghue

In the morning mist, pilots from 453 Squadron RAAF discuss the days mission.

[uraniumeater235]

I find the Short Sunderland to be a very attractive aircraft. Its also got a very interesting history and is underrepresented in media!

The Short Sunderland was/is a flying boat made by the Short brothers aircraft company in Britain (who also made the short sterling, Britains first 4 engine heavy bomber properly put into service) and was first put into service in 1938.

During ww2 it performed many many missions and was the quintessential flying boat for the allies. It saved many airmen and sailors from freezing to death in the cold and dark seas in its use as an air-sea rescue aircraft.

In burma at multiple points it was the only way to evacuate wounded soldiers away from the front lines with crews flying for sometimes 24 hours straight if just picking up wounded, flying them to safety and then doing it again while under near constant threat from ground fire.

It protected supply vessels in its role as a U-boat hunter (a job it did very well and a lot) even scoring the first unassisted kill against a U-boat (done by an Aussie Sunderland crew which im proud of).

It could even perform evasive maneuvers like corkscrews in spite of its dummy thickness.

I love the Short Sunderland and i hope more people learn to love it too.

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RAAF Royal Australian Air Force in World War Two. Supermarine Spitfire, Consolidated Catalina, Vultee Vengeance, Douglas Boston, CAC Wirraway

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Oh my lord

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VH-SVU CA-18 Mk23 Mustang Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation CAC RAAF A68-170 by Chris Murkin Via Flickr: VH-SVU CA-18 Mk23 Mustang Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation CAC RAAF A68-170 Photo Taken at Warbirds over Scone NSW Australia March 2026 HAF_0860

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A Kittyhawk I of No 75 Squadron RAAF at Milne Bay, September 1942