Photobiography of Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith's life

1. Charles
Kingsford-Smith
Photobiography

3. Born in
Hamilton, Queen
sland, 1897

4. Served in
World War 1
and shot down
two planes

5. Was awarded a
Military Cross

6. Purchased a De
Havilland DH6
plane and offered
joy rides and
performed
hazardous movie
stunts

9. His dream flight across the Pacific Ocean came true on
May 31st 1928

10. Jim Warner (navigator), Charles Ulm (co-pilot), Charles
Kingsford-Smith (pilot) and Harry H. Lyon (navigator)

11. Completed in 83
flying hours
Start
Oakland, Calif
ornia
Brisbane, Qu
eensland
Finish

12. Welcome home party in Sydney, Australia

13. Charles Kingsford-Smith
made sixteen more historic
fights in the following
seventeen years

14. On the 8th of November 1935 Charles
along with co-pilot Tommy
Pethybridge took off from Allahabad
for Singapore.
They were never seen again.