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The birth of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
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He enlisted for duty in the 1st AIF and served in Gallipoli.
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Kingsford Smith was shot down and recieved injuries that resulted in amputation of a part of his left foot.
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Sir Charles Kingsford Smith gets married to Thelma Eileen Hope Corboy and they have a son named Charles.
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Kingsford Smith and another pilot, C T P Ulm completed a round-Australia flight in only 10 days and 5 hours.
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In 1928, Kingsford Smith and Ulm made a trans-pacific flight from the US to Australia.
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Smithy made the first flight across mainland Australiain August, then he accomplished the first trans-tasman flight.
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The Southern Cross with Kingsford Smith at the helm made an emergency landing on a mudflat near Glenelg River, Kimberley.
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Title says it all.
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He crashed of the coast of burma. He may be gone, but his memory remains.
