SWEENEY, John Joseph
| Service Number: | 408409 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | No. 43 Squadron (RAAF) |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 24 Oct 1944: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 408409, No. 43 Squadron (RAAF), Air War SW Pacific 1941-45 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Steve Larkins
Part of a 43 Squadron crew that effected the longest range Air Sea rescue of a 42 Sqn Catalina crew on 25 October 1944 - 415632 FO (later Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt, DFC)), Armand Andre Etienne (Captain), of West Perth, WA; 408409 FO (later Flt Lt), Ian McCallister Robson of Sandy Bay, Tas; 428809 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) (later Warrant Officer (WO)), John Joseph Sweeney (Navigator), of Newcastle, NSW, (visible standing on the wing of the rescue aircraft); 428832 Flt Sgt (later WO), Raymond Victor Tumeth of Haberfield, NSW; 428360 Flt Sgt (later WO), Derek Fanshawe Robertson of Camberwell, Vic; 12912 Sergeant (Sgt) (later PO), Robert Richard Tingman of Brighton, Vic; 12223 Sgt (later Flt Sgt), Albert Leslie Warton of Sydney, NSW; A2398 Sgt, Thomas Roy Elphick of Bondi, NSW; 33642 Corporal, James Francis Burgess Oliver of Glen Innes of NSW.