Port Albert, Ontario

Port Albert, Ontario

All set, Shooting the Sun and Compass Swinging

Three photographs from a scrapbook. The first is an airman in a Sidcot suit carrying a bag and and a box. Captioned 'All set, with bag of instruments and sextant. November 1941'. The second is of six man sat on wooden chairs using sextants. They are positioned the 'wrong way' in order to rest their arms on the back of the chairs. Captioned 'Shooting the sun. Truscott, Myers, McCreavey, Philps, Hyde & Trott'. The third is an airman observing using a compass on a low tripod. He is crouched down. Captioned 'Compass Swinging Hyde does his stuff.'

1941-11

Three b/w photographs on an album page

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