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African scenes
Top: A man in flying suit, boots, gloves and helmet with goggles and oxygen mask. He leans, with arms crossed, against the corrugated wall of a building with open doors.
Centre, left: A single storey building in Masvingo with a veranda leading to…

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Airmen with cases at Cochran Field, Macon, Georgia
Groups of men in uniform with side caps but no jackets stand outside two storey wooden buildings with suitcases, bags and other luggage.

Additional identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

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Flying cadet barber shop
A may is laying on a wooden crate etched ‘Egg coal’ on the front. Above the man, who is shielding his eyes, is a sign reading ‘flying cadet barber shop’ and the number 34’.

Additional identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

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Flying cadet barber shop
A trainee balances on a small post whilst leaning on a long stick. Another man is laying on a wooden crate under the sign ‘flying cadet barber shop’ with the number 34 underneath.

Additional identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

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Flying School Police Department
A Jeep with two men inside parked next to a small flat roofed building. A sign reads ‘Flying School Police Department’. Two men in uniform with white sashes and gloves stand alongside. A woman in civilian clothes walks nearby.

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Beechcraft
A Beechcraft Model 18 with star markings on fuselage and tail being refuelled by a man on the port wing. Two further men are under the wing with the fuel bowser. A Stearman is visible on the left. Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

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Station HQ Souther Field near Americus, Georgia.
A building with pitched roof to one side of a large open space on which goal posts are set and a man is walking. To the left is a flagpole from which the United States flag flies. Utility posts are erected on the building and across the site. Other…

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Cochran Field, Macon, Georgia
Various single and two storey buildings arranged around an open space with trees beyond. Utility poles cross the site and a United States flag flies from a flagpole with a group of men at its base. There is a road in the foreground and two parked…

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Souther Field
A single storey building with a sign reading ‘Elev 470’ on its side. An ambulance is parked in front with four men sat on a collection of wooded benches and crates. A loud speaker is fixed to a small extension to the building.

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Cochran Field, Macon, Georgia
A pair of two storey clapboard buildings stand beyond a shallow ditch with a tree in blossom. The buildings have wooden steps leading to open doors with adjacent external vertical ladders.

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Souther Field near Americus, Georgia.
A two storey building set in open ground with bushes planted along the frontage. The United States flag flies from a flagpole in front and a water tower is behind.

Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

Fifteen airmen by a runway
Fifteen airmen wearing flying suits and helmets stand and sit around a group of buildings by a runway on which there is a Stearman. There is a car parked to one side.

Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

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Souther Field
Two men in flying suits with helmets and goggles sit in a Stearman with markings 16 on the fuselage and 11000on the tail. A third man in flying suit stands alongside with an open book in his hands. There are buildings, men and vehicles…

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Nederland zal herrijzen
Tea bag with tags: "Nederland zal herrijzen" "Uit vrij Nederl.-Indië een groet, Houdt Moed!" ("The Netherlands shall rise again" "A greeting from Free Dutch East Indies, take courage!)

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Halifax over windmill
A Halifax is flying low over Seaton Ross windmill.

Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

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Women at Great Falls
#1 is a woman standing on rocks looking across the hills.
#2 is two women standing on an observation platform.

Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

German Air Sea Rescue Service
Two mounted photographs of Allied airmen rescued by the German Air Sea Rescue Service. The page has the text: "Rescued by the German Air Sea Rescue Service. Informations [sic] from Brain Walley, 7 Solomon St, Fremantle, W.A. 6160".
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Wedding cars
Decorated with ribbons, twoHillman 14 registration numbers EAL 3 and GTO 90 are parked outside the entrance to a churchyard. Both cars have AA and RAC badges. Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

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Don Sparkes and airmen, village views and Marquis of Granby pub and church
Eleven photographs from an album.
#1 is Don and two colleagues, one a soldier, the other a civilian.
#2 is two men standing outside a house.
#3 is Back Lane / High Street junction in Binbrook.
#4 is Bayons Manor, Tealby.
#5 and 8 are the Marquis…

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Lincolnshire Wolds scenes
Nine photographs from an album.
#1, 2 and 5 are of a the Church of St Mary & St Gabriel, Binbrook.
#3 and 6 are country roads.
#4 is the junction Kent road Canberra Crescent, Brookenby.
#7 and 9 is a man sitting on a wall by Bayons Manor…

Vampires, river, Shallufa church, city, Lincolns, Castel Benito transit hotel and Benghazi
Nine photographs from an album.
#1 a row of Vampires
#2is of the River Nile at Kafr Halawa.
#3 is the church at RAF Shallufa.
#4 is an oblique aerial view of the Thames, London with the Isle of Dogs at the bottom.
#5 is the entrance to RAF…

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The Suez Canal at Ismailia
An oblique aerial photograph of the Suez Canal at Ismailia. RAF Deversoir in the distance.

Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

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Airman and car
An airman wearing battledress with his foot on the running board of a Ford Model Y which is parked in front of a Lancaster.

Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

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Ruhr River crossings at Kupferdreh
An oblique aerial view of the Ruhr River near Kupferdreh with two damaged bridges: one is the partly destroyed Kampmann pontoon bridge, the one in the distance is the Kupferdreh-Heisingen railway bridge.

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Housing in Naples
View across Corso Arnaldo Lucci, Naples, numbers 155 to 189, with cart in foreground. On the reverse 'Sunbronze June 46, housing in Naples, road to Pompeii'.

Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.
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