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DC-5 VH-CXA destroyed at 7 Mile Drome near Port Moresby after Japanese air raid against 7 Mile Drome
AWM Caption: "Papua, 1942-08-18 [sic 1942-08-17]. A transport plane [DC-5 VH-CXA] burning on the runway of Seven Mile Aerodrome, near Port Moresby, after a raid by twenty-four Japanese bombers. One man was killed and thirteen injured, four planes were destroyed, several damaged, and ground installations destroyed."
Credit: Damien Parer via AWM 026272  Date: August 17, 1942
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