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US Army-Navy Excellence badge
A badge awarded by the US Army/Navy for excellence.
Flying and popular aviating
A special Royal Air Force issue introducing the film, 'Wings for the Eagle', in praise of the workers of America's aircraft industry with images of airmen working on the engines of a Stirling on the cover and a P-38 and silhouettes of flying aircraft…
Aircraft recognition book
Book with photographs of six aircraft each of 40 pages with opposite lined page for notes. Some are identified.
B-29 at RAF Wyton
A group of airmen standing behind a NAAFI van with B-29 behind them on taxiway. On the reverse 'Wyton 1950'.
Newspaper cutting - three big blows on rocket, fly bomb depots
Article concerning operations by Lancaster and Halifax against flying bomb and rocket depots in France. Gives details of daylight operations near Paris. Also mentions B-17 operations against German communications and oil.
American instructor and four RAF trainees
Instructor on left, trainees on right, all wearing US uniform, trainees wearing RAF caps. Standing next to a Stearman training aircraft. Unidentified squadron watermark top right of picture, 'Fortune Favours the Bold'. Edward Gearon is standing in…
Operation Varsity
Frontispiece, 'Op Varsity'.
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.
Kit bags and bus transport
A pile of kit bags by the open door of a coach near which are groups of men in uniform, without their jackets. Another two coaches are parked along the road, one with the sign 'Special' on the front. Opposite are buildings one with a sign for 'Dixon…
Coastline
A single track railway runs along the coast with utility poles with wires above. A man in uniform and side cap stands with his leg resting on a wooden fence.
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.
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.
Trainees
Four airmen, three wearing trainee side caps, standing either side of an officer. Behind the group is a long single storey wooden building against which a bicycle is leaning.
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.
Cessna Airmaster inside a hangar
A high winged monoplane inside a hangar.
Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing
Two biplane aircraft next to a single storey wooden building with a pitched roof and open windows. The first aircraft is a Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing. Utility poles and wires cross the site behind the aircraft.
Stearman
Eight aircraft in a line, one of which is being refueled.
Harvards
Ten Harvard aircraft on the ground with wheel chocks. A number of men walk amongst them.
Mess hall
Two chefs stand, arms crossed, next to tables set with crockery. On the brick chimney breast lean the United States and British flags with a portrait between them. There are open windows to one side of the chimney and further windows set high in the…
Room interior
A selection of leather and metal armchairs set under an open window. The room has a wooden floor with a standard lamp and a ceramic urn standing at the base of a wooden pillar.
Airbase chapel
A chapel with spire with trees and cars parked alongside. To the left are three barrack style buildings amongst a series of utility poles.
Crossroads
Looking across a road junction on an airbase with utility poles to seven single storey buildings with low pitched roofs.
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…
Keep 'em flying!
A classroom with long wooden desks and chairs facing a blackboard above which a banner reads ‘keep ‘em flying’.