• RAAF Airman Aircrew ~ Simply The Best ....
  • Boeing Globemaster C17-A ~ 36 Squadron ....
  • Alenia Spartan C-27J ~ 35 Squadron ....
  • Airbus A330 ~ 33 Squadron ....
  • Boeing 707-338C ~ 33 Squadron ....
  • Boeing E-7A Hawkeye ~ 2 Squadron ....
  • Lockheed Hercules C-130J ~ 37 Squadron ....
  • Lockheed Hercules C-130H ~ 36 Squadron ....
  • Lockheed Hercules C-130E ~ 37 Squadron ....
  • Lockheed Hercules C-130A ~ 36 Squadron ....
  • Pacific Aerospace CT4 ~ 1 Flying Training School ....
  • Bombardia Challenger CL604 ~ 34 Squadron ....
  • Beechcraft King Air 350 ~ 32 Squadron ....
  • BAC1-11 ~ 34 Squadron ....
  • Boeing 737 ~ 34 Squadron ....
  • Bell Iroquois UH-1H ~ 9 Squadron ....
  • De Havilland Caribou DHC-4 ~ 38 Squadron ....
  • Boeing Chinook CH-47 ~ 12 Squadron ....
  • Lockheed Orion P3 ~ 11 Squadron ....
  • Sikorski Blackhawk UH-60 ~ 9 Squadron ....
  • Douglas DC3 ~ Aircraft Research and Development Unit ....
  • Pilatus PC9 ~ 2 Flying Training School ....
  • Aermacchi MB-326H ~ Roulettes ....

Neville Lawrence DUUS, O17899, Navigator ....

Nickname: 'Nev The Nav'.


Address: 1 Raintree Drive.
City: TEWANTIN  QLD  4565.
Phone: 07 5449 7318.
Mobile: 0421 102 997.
Email: nevduus@yahoo.com.au
Service Number: O17899.
Aircrew Position: Navigator.
Aircraft Flown:
  • English Electric Canberra T-21.
  • Douglas Dakota DC-3.
  • Hawker Siddeley 748.
  • British Aircraft Corporation (BAC 1-11).
  • General Dynamics F-111C.
Squadrons/Units:
  • School of Air Navigation.
  • 2 Squadron.
  • 34 Squadron.
  • 6 Squadron.
  • Transport Support Flight, Butterworth.
Decorations / Awards:
Courses: No 7 F111 Operational Conversion Course, 21 February 1977-24 June 1977.
Interests:
Other:

Vietnam Service Record.  Pictures four and five above.  Memories when two warriors recently reunited at the RAAF Museum, Point Cook.   The two warriors are Neville Duus and Canberra bomber A84-236.  Before sitting in his office again after a few decades, Nev pats the patched area of the upper forward fuselage of A84-236 which still bears the scars from a fragment of one of the bombs dropped by A84-236 during a mission over Vietnam on 10 August 1969.  Nev was a Flight Lieutenant navigator with No 2 Squadron in Vietnam.  The fragment blew-out the lower bomb-aimers window on the under surface of the forward fuselage and became firmly wedged in the upper part of the fuselage.  His Dalton computer, which had been lying beside him in the nose compartment, had been smashed by the shrapnel as it went by to lodge above him.
Profile Date: 09 December, 2009.