Rescue of young Smithy

1907 Australian pioneer aviator Charles Kingsford-Smith (1897 - 1935), as a boy, was rescued from the surf with hundreds of others at Sydney's Bondi Beach, one of the first recorded and largest surf rescues in Australian history.

In later life Kingsford Smith went on to complete the first non-stop crossing of the Australian mainland and the first flight from Australia to New Zealand, and was also the first to complete the more difficult eastward Pacific crossing from Australia to the United States, in 1934.

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