JOHNSON, Geoffrey Neil
| Service Number: | 416767 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 September 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Flying Officer |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Crystal Brook, South Australia, 18 April 1923 |
| Home Town: | Crystal Brook, Port Pirie City and Dists, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 11 Sep 1941: | Involvement Flying Officer, 416767 | |
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| 11 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Adelaide | |
| 11 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 416767 | |
| 9 Oct 1945: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Pilot Officer Geoffrey Neil Johnson 416767 was injured when RAAF Liberator A72-88 of Number 24 Squadron crashed two miles west of Fenton airstrip, NT as it returned from an attack mission on Japanese shipping in February 1945
Flight Lieutenant John Richard Parkinson 411371 and Flying Officer John Macpherson Pitt 401830 were killed
The rest of the crew survived the crash: Flying Officer Ivan Fernley Coward 416415 / Sergeant Ernest William Jennings 443957 / Flight Lieutenant Victor Charles Edward Scanlon 416131 / Flying Officer Arthur Aram Cambridge 406750 / Warrant Officer Fredrick Crawford 425611 (A11367 - served until 1965) / Pilot Officer Geoffrey Wallace Rhodes 413253 / Sergeant Ernest Lancelot Francis 442341 / Flight Sergeant Allen George Cullen 19835