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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…
Centre, left: A single storey building in Masvingo with a veranda leading to…
Tags: African heritage; sport
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.
Additional identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.
Tags: training
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.
Additional identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.
Tags: training
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.
Additional identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.
Tags: training
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.
Additional…
Additional…
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.
Tags: ground crew; petrol bowser; service vehicle; Stearman
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…
Tags: hangar; station headquarters
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…
Tags: training
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.
Identification…
Identification…
Tags: service vehicle
Halifax over windmill
A Halifax is flying low over Seaton Ross windmill.
Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.
Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.
Tags: Halifax
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".
It is further…
It is further…
Tags: 139 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Blenheim; ditching
Wedding cars
Decorated with ribbons, two Hillman 14 registration numbers EAL 3 and GTO 90 are parked outside the church of the Holy Rood, Village St, outside the church of the Holy Rood, Village Street, Edwalton, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire., Rushcliffe,…
Tags: love and romance
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…
#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…
Tags: air gunner; aircrew
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…
#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…
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.
Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.
Tags: aerial photograph; RAF Deversoir
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.
Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.
Tags: Lancaster
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.
Identification kindly provided by Frank…
Identification kindly provided by Frank…
Tags: aerial photograph