Quine, John Wakeford. Photograph album

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Quine, John Wakeford. Photograph album

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69 album pages showing aircraft, people, activities and places while at the Spartan School of Aeronautics, No 3 British Flying Training School, Miami, Oklahoma. Includes trips to El Paso, Terrel Texas, Chicago and the trip home via Canada.

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IBCC Digital Archive

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Collection Items

Dülmen
Target photograph showing smoke from six bombs in built up area in centre of frame. Open countryside and fields all round. Captioned '3690, L.SGN, 22.3.45, 7", 15000, 048, 1492, DULMEN J, 18 MC 500DT. C31SECS, F?O QUINE, J, 582'.

Sterkrade and Hannover
Top - target photograph showing smoke from bomb explosions in centre with some built up area to top left. Captioned '3737 LSGN 24.3.45 Y 18000' ISO 13.19.18 STERKRADE E, 18MC500DT, C34SECS, F/O QUINE. H. 582'.
Bottom - target photograph showing…

Bremen and Lutzkendorf
Top - target photograph showing smoke from bombs over most of frame and built up area top left. Captioned '3640, L.SGN, 21.3.45 " 8'.16800'103 BREMEN OSLEBHAUSEN Oil Refinery, S, 13MC500DT:4ANM64DT, C34 SECSI. F/O Quine; S: 582'.
Bottom - target…

Six aircrew
Six aircrew wearing a variety of flying suits, Mae Wests and parachutes standing under an aircraft. Includes individual scan of photograph.

Moncton
View through window of single and two story buildings with doors and windows. Captioned 'View from my window, Moncton'. Includes individual scan of photograph.

Canada
Top left - view across railway tracks of a bay with town on far shore. Captioned 'Bay at St John's'.
Top right - telegraph pole with open ground and trees on the left. There is a blemish on the photograph at the top right of telegraph wires.…

Views of Kansas City and other locations
Top left - in the foreground a street with cars parked. On the other side of street a tall building.
Top right - view of a cross roads in a city with cars and shop on far side. In the distance a tall building. Caption for both photographs 'Views of…

People at training school
Top left - head and shoulders portrait of a sergeant wearing tunic with pilot's brevet. Captioned 'Sgt John Quine'.
Middle right - full length portrait of a man wearing khaki uniform standing in front of a tree. In the background a single story…

Wings award parade
Eight men wearing khaki uniform, seven with side caps and one with a peaked cap all with pilot's brevet. Captioned 'The great day - I dood it'. Includes individual scan of photograph.

Airborne views around Miami Oklahoma
Top left - oblique aerial photograph of a town with river running from bottom to top right. Captioned 'Miami looking S.E.'.
Middle right - oblique aerial photograph of a town in middle distance with part of cockpit coaming and tailplane visible.…

Airborne views round Miami Oklahoma
Top left - oblique aerial photograph of fields with buildings bottom right. Part of wing visible at bottom. Captioned 'The field from 2000''.
Top right - oblique aerial photograph of town in middle with open countryside beyond. Part of wing visible…

Cowboys and weather
Top - three men wearing cowboy hats and two women, one wearing cowboy hat sitting on woosden stockyard fence. In the background cows and fences. Captioned 'Cowboys'. On the reverse 'Margorie Graham, Commerce, Okla, June 26 1943'.
Bottom - blurred…

People at training school
Top left - four men, all wearing khaki uniform with battledress tops, standing in line. In the background right bushes. Captioned 'Fred, Bill, Myself & Val'.
Top right - two men hanging upside down holding the supports to a porch roof over door to…

Sport at training school
Top left - in the centre a man over the top of a high jump bar. One man watches from the right. To the left another man standing and one sitting on the ground. In the background centre a telegraph pole and a building. Captioned 'High jump'.
Top…

People at training school
Top left - three men wearing side caps gather round a fourth also wearing side cap but eating a banana. Captioned 'Our first....'.
Top right - three men, all wearing battledress and side caps gathered round with mouths open. Centre men is holding a…

The Terrel trip
Top left - oblique aerial photograph of a town with river running middle right to top right. On the left part of an aircraft wing. Captioned 'Muskogee' on the reverse 'Muskogee'.
Top right - oblique aerial photograph of open countryside with…

People at training school
Top left - a man wearing swimming trunks lays on a mat with another man sitting in a chair alongside to the right. In the middle a fence with road and another fence beyond with buildings in the background. Captioned 'Still warm'.
Top right - an man…

Places and people at training school
Top left - in the foreground thin trees and a small hut. In the background a single story building with covered porch and windows. Captioned 'The new junior barracks'.
Top right - view looking out of a window with tree in foreground and buildings…

Sports at training school
Top left - a man with shorts but no shirt with racket in front playing tennis on a court with building in the background. Captioned 'Dont [sic] miss it George'.
Top right - in the foreground four men in sports kit playing football. Other men in the…

Sports at training school
Top left - man standing with shorts but no shirt with tennis racket behind his head at the back of a tennis court, In the background buildings left and right with road between. Captioned 'The Binder has a quiet game of tennis'.
Top right - three…

People at training school
Top left - a man wearing khaki uniform and side cap standing in front of a tree with building in the background. He is wearing an large iron cross badge. Captioned 'For landing with his wheels up'.
Top right Two men, both wearing khaki uniform …

People at training school
Top left - head and shoulders view of a man with no shirt holding a camera to his eye. In the background a building with small windows near roof. Captioned 'Bill & our camera'.
Top right - six men, two wearing shirt and tie, one in flying suit and…

El Paso, Albuquerque and home
Top left - airborne view looking down at mountain. Captioned 'Just after leaving El Paso'.
Top right - open aerodrome with mountains in background. Captioned 'El Paso field'.
Second row right - view from rear cockpit of pilot looking round.…

El Paso and Albuquerque
Top - in the foreground a number of cactus plants in a rock surrounded bed. On the left part of a truck, Grass beyond cactus and mountains in the distance. Captioned 'Cacti'.
Middle - In the foreground rough ground with furrows. In the centre a…

El Paso and Guadalupe Peak
Top left - airborne view of mountains below. Captioned 'Guadaloupe [sic] Peak'.
Top right - airborne view of mountain in the distance. Part of wing on left bottom. Captioned 'Between El Paso and Albuquerque'.
Bottom left - airborne view of…
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