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English: First Allied pilots to try out airstrip built by engineers of No. 62 Works Wing RAAF at Tadji greeted by Air Commodore F. R. W. Scherger (extreme left) who will control all Allied air operations from captured strips at Aitape. Left to right: Brigadier General Paul Wurtsmith, Commanding General, V Fighter Command (pilot of first Allied combat plane to land); Colonel Jack Sverdrup (who squeezed into General Wurtsmith's single-seated Lightning aircraft); Wing Commander W. A. C. Dale, Task Force Engineer, and Colonel Robert Morrissey, Chief of Staff, V Fighter Command (pilot of second Lightning to land). General Wurtsmith's plane is in background.
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(Original text: http://www.awm.gov.au/database/collection.asp) Original uploader was Hawkeye7 at en.wikipedia (30 March 2009 (original upload date))
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