McDermott, Colin. Album 1 Evanton Gunnery School 1943

Title

McDermott, Colin. Album 1 Evanton Gunnery School 1943

Description

41 items. Photographs of aircrew and aircraft taken at RAF Evanton during 1943.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Barbara Bury and catalogued by Barry Hunter.

Date

2016-11-03

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

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Identifier

McDermott, C

Collection Items

Bomb damage and aircraft
13 photographs showing bomb damage and aircraft.
Three photographs of Dortmund residential areas. Only skeletons of buildings are remaining.
Heavily bombed Krupp works
Four bombs in flight
Hamm Railway bridge. In the foreground is the destroyed…

Fourteen Mitchells in Flight
An air-to-air photograph of 14 B-25 Mitchells in flight. They are flying over a cultivated valley, set between low hills.

Frankfurt
A sequence of two aerial photographs of Frankfurt, with an heavily bombed industrial area.


Identification kindly provided by Andrew Gordon of the Finding the location WW1 & WW2 Facebook group.

Three Mitchells in Flight
Starboard side view of three B-25 Mitchells in flight.

Mitchell and Three Airmen
Three airmen standing at the front of a B-25 Mitchell.

Bombs in Flight
Four photographs of a cluster of bombs in flight.
Photo 1 shows four bombs in flight. On the reverse is a stamp with
'F220 Neg 1 Geldern 9/2/45 98/180/320 Mitchell 16.00 W/Cdr Marshall 11,000' Not distributed as OP considered u/s from film…

Hamm Railway bridge
In the foreground is the destroyed Südbrücke Hamm railway bridge with four spans over the Rhine. The Düsseldorf suburb of Hamm is partially visible. The Südbrücke is in the distance, also destroyed.

Identification kindly provide by Mariano…

Krupp works
Heavily bombed Krupp works

Dortmund
Three photographs of Dortmund residential areas. Only skeletons of buildings are remaining.

Identification kindly provided by Ludger Keiser of the Finding the location WW1 & WW2 Facebook group.

Parade of Airmen
Six photographs of airmen on parade.
Photo 1 is a troop with rifles and bayonets marching past officers in front of an open hangar. On the reverse 'P/O Edwards'.
Photo 2 is a troop marching past officers. Behind is a wooden hut. On the reverse 'P/O…

36 Airmen
36 airmen arranged in three rows in front of a wooden hut.

29 Airmen
29 airmen and a dog arranged in three rows.

Thirty Airmen
30 airmen arranged in three rows in front of a wooden hut.

Twenty Airmen
A group of 20 airmen and a dog arranged in four rows in front of a wooden hut.

Eleven Trainee Airmen
11 airmen arranged in two rows in front of a wooden hut. On the reverse are the men's signatures.

Fifteen Trainee Airmen
15 airmen arranged in three rows in front of a wooden building. On the reverse are the men's signatures and 'Thanks a Million Best wishes "M" Squad'.

Thirteen Trainee Airmen
13 airmen arranged in three rows in front of a wooden hut. On the reverse each man has signed his name.

Ten Trainee Airmen
10 airmen arranged in two rows in front of a wooden hut. They have signed their names on the reverse.

Ten Trainee Airmen
Ten airmen arranged in two rows in front of a wooden building. Each man's name is written underneath. On the reverse are the signatures of all the men and a stamp with 'RAF Evanton Crown Copyright Reserved'.

Ten Trainee Airmen
10 airmen arranged in two rows in front of a wooden building. Their names are written underneath. On the reverse each man has signed his name with home town and their is a stamp with 'RAF Evanton Crown Copyright Reserved'.

Nine Trainee Airmen
Nine airmen arranged in two rows in front of a wooden hut. Their names are written underneath. On the reverse are eight signatures and a stamp with 'RAF Evanton Crown Copyright Reserved'.

Ten Trainee Airmen
10 airmen arranged in two rows in front of a wooden hut. Their names are written underneath and on the reverse are nine signatures and a stamp with 'RAF Evanton Crown Copyright Reserved'.

Ten Trainee Airmen
10 airmen arranged in two rows in front of a wooden hut. Their names are written underneath. On the reverse are their signatures and a stamp with 'RAF Evanton Crown Copyright Reserved'.

Ten Trainee Airmen
10 airmen arranged in two rows in front of a wooden hut. Their names are written underneath. On the reverse are nine signatures and a stamp with 'RAF Evanton Crown Copyright Reserved'.

Eleven Trainee Airmen
11 airmen arranged in two rows in front of a wooden hut. Their names are written underneath. On the reverse is stamped 'RAF Evanton Crown Copyright Reserved'.
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