Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham,, nicknamed "Mary", was an Australian-born senior officer in the Royal Air Force. During the First World War, he was at Gallipoli with the New Zealand Expeditionary Fo
Coningham in 1944
Coningham (centre) with Montgomery (left) and Dempsey (right) prior to the British crossing of the Rhine
In a ceremony at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, President Harry S. Truman (third from left) presents the Army Distinguished Service Medal to (opposite the President, L to R:) General H. D. G. Crerar, Canadian Army, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, Air Marshal Sir James Robb, and Major General Sir F. W. Guingand. President Truman is in Frankfort to inspect U. S. troops during a break in the Potsdam Conference.
Star Tiger was an Avro Tudor passenger aircraft owned and operated by British South American Airways which disappeared without a trace over the Atlantic Ocean while on a flight between Santa Maria in
Arthur Coningham (RAF officer)
…and innovative tactics in support of ground operations. On 30 January 1948, he disappeared along with all the other passengers and crew of the airliner G-AHNP Star Tiger when it vanished without a trace somewhere off the eastern coast of the United States. Coningham was born in Brisbane, Queensland, on 19 January 1895…
An Avro Tudor Mk.IVB Super Trader similar to the aircraft that disappeared