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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Ontario--Picton"
Bolingbroke on fire
Three photographs of a burning aircraft captioned 'Fighting the fire.', 'Where there is smoke there is fire.' and 'Almost under control'.
The fourth clearly of a…
Tags: Bolingbroke
Picton 1943
The second a snow covered car on a street with the caption 'After the snow storm'.
The third a…
Tags: military living conditions; sport
People and places
Top middle - missing photograph.
Top right - view across lawn to the Stone Church, Chapel Street, Picton with tower left and tree right.
Bottom left - missing…
Tags: training
61 Course photograph
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; navigator; training
Course photograph
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; navigator; training
Picton Ontario
Top middle - view of airfield buildings with control tower in distance on left.
Top right - various buildings.
Bottom left - view looking up of ab aircraft at height.
Bottom…
Tags: training
People and places
Top middle - view down a path towards the courthouse Picton, Ontario.
Top right - view across Picton Harbour with boats at near bank and trees on far…
Tags: training
Ontario views
The photograph on the top right of the left page shows an aerial view of Picton airfield with a runway in the background. A wing of an aircraft can be…
Tags: aerial photograph; perimeter track; runway
Bill Foskett Biography Chapter One
There is a second copy with handwritten edits.
Bill Foskett Biography Chapter Two
Bill Foskett Biography Chapter Three
The first two chapters used Bill's words but the third is written by an anonymous friend.
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