Syd Sharp alongside a statue of a naval rating from WWII. (Sharp family)By Tom Lewis*
A NAVAL officer who may have brought down the Zero fighter which crash-landed on Melville Island on 19 February 1942 has died in Brisbane. Lieutenant Frederick Sydney Sharp, known as Syd, was stationed at East Point on the Port War Signal Station facility which checked shipping in and out of the harbour, during the first air raid on Darwin.
