Scrapbook page - aircraft and people

PPowellNI19060001.jpg

Title

Scrapbook page - aircraft and people

Description

Top left - B-24 parked on airfield, captioned '104 a/c Foggia 45'.
Top right - air-to-air view looking down on B-24 with bombs falling. Captioned 'Bomb hit B-24 but plane survives, not our plane, taken in 44'.
Middle left - three airmen two wearing khaki uniform with shorts and the third wearing battledress standing in front of a tent. Captioned 'Norman Skeets, JC Foggia 45'.
Middle centre - two airmen playing cards inside a tent. Captioned 'In desert, Norman an Dixon playing rummy waiting to return to UK'.
Middle right - Airman wearing flying helmet manning machine gun. Captioned 'JC Line shooting on beam .05 gun'.
Bottom left - crashed and burned aircraft, captioned 'Lincoln' [nb. actually Lancaster Mk 7 NX732 crashed 11 April 1946].
Bottom centre - seven airmen some shirtless sitting on grass surrounded by B-24s. Captioned 'Behind enemy lines'.
Bottom right - two airmen wearing battledress with half brevet standing side by side. Captioned 'JC + Norman Abu Suier after VE Day'.

Temporal Coverage

Coverage

Type

Format

Eight b/w photographs mounted on a scrapbook page

Rights

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

Identifier

PPowellNI19060001

Collection

Citation

“Scrapbook page - aircraft and people,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 23, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/39463.

Item Relations

This item has no relations.