British visitors

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Title

British visitors

Description

Top right - air-to-ground view of a city with square grid roads taken from rear turret.
Bottom left - oblique aerial photograph Lake Tappan, New Jersey.
Centre - newspaper cutting with photograph of 16 Lancasters lined up on hard-standing. There are groups of military men bottom left and middle left. A large group of spectators are seated top left. A car is driving down the line of aircraft.

Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder of the Finding the location WW1 & WW2 Facebook Group.

Date

1946-07

Temporal Coverage

Language

Format

Two b/w photographs and one newspaper cutting mounted on an album page

Rights

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Contributor

Identifier

PPearceAT16030030

Transcription

Captioned: 'British Visitors, 16 four-engined Lancaster bombers, Squadron No 35 are lined up at Mitchel Field after arriving from Gander Bay, Newfoundland yesterday. The took off from England last week. The squadron led by Wing Commander Craig, will fly an aerial review formation over the city today.'

Citation

“British visitors,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/17647.

Item Relations

This Item dcterms:relation Item: View from turret