Another great source of information on the missing plane is - Untitled Document
It is a web page set up by a grandson of one of the men who was on the flight.
Although the name of the link is not showing, ive tried it and it does take you to the page.
Through our facebook page we have now located more families of those missing and we know of at least 5 direct relatives as in sons/sisters/brothers. The more families we find the more chance of more living direct family members. Those still living are moving on in age, and Im sure would like...
A month or so ago we created a submission and forwarded it to Unrecovered War Casualties in Canberra. An email received earlier this week from the Case Manager, Asia/Pacific Unrecovered War Casualties tells me she has seen part of the report being prepared and feels that they are doing a great...
From the above link, have now found the grandson of another of the servicemen on board, and another gent who has previously been successful in the location of a missing aircraft "Beautiful Betsy" downed between Darwin and Brisbane. This search took 30 years! That plane remains onsite, well...
Another forum relating to the aircraft... or more-so the radio onboard. You may be interested
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Pacific Wrecks Forum • View topic - Missing RAAF Dakota VH-CIZ (A65-83)
A list of those onboard : actual street addresses omitted at this time.
By State of Enlistment – Australian Forces - World War 11
Occupants of Dakota C47-CIZ
Lost at sea 19 December 1945
Western Australia
BERG JOSEPH RAYMOND (Pvt)
Service Number - WX40262
Date of birth - 26 Mar 1925...
I can certainly see what you mean. The original posting was October 2006, and here we are... popping in in Jan 2013. Must have been a bit of a surprise for those of you who originally posted. Would love to have seen what the original link had behind it!
Patience and perseverence...
Already...
We now have a Facebook page "Search for the CIZ.
A number of the men were from Queensland. We will try to put the individual states up, have only just found where they enrolled, today. If you could check out the f/b page and post to your page, it may reach somebody.
Thanks for the interest.
Crew and passenger list:
Private Reevel ALDERSON SX25921
Craftsman Walter Kingsford ARCUS NX96202
Craftsman Leonard Norman ARNOLD NX118494
Flight Sergeant Francis BODLEY 440688
Private Robert BOWLES SX25926
Captain John Frederick Richard BURNETT WX28702
Captain Francis (Frank) ROBINSON...
Thank you, we are mother and daughter trying to find other families of those on the plane. We noted that the link did not work, but thought we would get onboard and see if we could find anything or anybody who knows anything about this. Thanks guys.
Our plan is to try to get...
My husbands uncle was on this flight. We are looking for family members of those who were on board. Does anybody have any information regarding the missing Dakota flight VH CIZ missing after leaving Ambon heading toward Darwin on 19 December 1945?