Operation Sunbaker

Operation Sunbaker
Part of South West Pacific theatre of World War II
Date 17 May 1944 Location Near Dili, Timor Result Japanese victory
Belligerents
Australia	Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders
F/O A. McL. Clark †	Unknown
Strength
15	Unknown
Casualties and losses
15 killed	Unknown

Operation Sunbaker was a military operation by the Services Reconnaissance Department of Australian Army in Timor in May 1945. The aim was to insert a team of operatives behind enemy lines. A B-24 Liberator A72-159 of 200 Flight RAAF taking the team was shot down on 17 May near Dili with the loss of all on board.

The dead were: AIRCRAFT CREW

• F/O T.T. Biltoft
• F/Lt. H.R. Campbell
• F/O H.J. Clark
• F/O H.A.J. Jones
• F/Lt. J.W. Rice
• F/O L.J. Brown
• F/O A. McL. Clark, DFM (captain)
• F/Sgt. C.A.R. Gamble
• F/O G.M. Manning, DFM
• Sgt. H. Riley

"Z" SPECIAL OPERATION MEMBERS

• Lt. A.F. Wilkins
• Sgt. K.H. Bell
• Cpl A.L. Lilya
• Cpl J.A. Nicol
• Sgt. K.M. Marshall

Notes

• Silver, Lynette Ramsay (1990). The Heroes of Rimau: Unravelling the Mystery of One of World War II's Most Daring Raids Hardcover. Birchgrove, New South Wales: Sally Milner Publishing. ISBN 9781863510530.
• "The Official History of the Operations and Administration of] Special Operations - Australia [(SOA), also known as the Inter-Allied Services Department (ISD) and Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD)] Volume 2 - Part 1 page 53". National Archives of Australia. p. 131.