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Australian bicentennial commemorative medal depicting Sir Charles Kingsford Smith

In 1928 Australian pilots Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm, along with two US crewmen, became the first people to cross the Pacific Ocean by air in their three-engine Fokker aircraft, the Southern Cross.

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National Museum of Australia

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