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Naples Italy 1945, Port Elizabeth 1942
Open menu airmen's mess, 42 ANS Port Elizabeth. Captioned 'The only good meal we had in the mess'.
Tags: mess
Naples 1945, Port Elizabeth 1942-3
Four photographs of Port Elizabeth, two of his billet.
Identification kindly…
Lancaster 'Mike Squared' and Cape Town
RH page more tourist photographs of Cape Town page captioned 'Cape Town March 43'
Tags: 103 Squadron; Lancaster; nose art
'Old Mike Squared' and Cape Town
Beacon Bay East Beach
Tags: aerial photograph; training
Newspaper cuttings concerning awards of Victoria Crosses
Newspaper cuttings award of Victoria Cross
Tags: aircrew; bale out; bombing; crash; Grand Slam; killed in action; Master Bomber; pilot; shot down; Victoria Cross
John Nettleton VC
Tags: 185 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 5 Group; 97 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Fw 190; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Hampden; Lancaster; Me 109; memorial; mine laying; prisoner of war; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stalag Luft 3; training; Victoria Cross
South and central Africa
Top right - a two storey building on the left with steps up to door. A single story building from left to right across the middle wit trees behind.…
Tags: fuelling
Eric Parker's Biography
Tags: 12 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 242 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 47 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-29; Blenheim; bomb aimer; C-47; Cornell; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; flight engineer; ground personnel; hangar; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; love and romance; Me 109; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blyton; RAF Dishforth; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Lyneham; RAF Marham; RAF Oakington; RAF Paignton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Snaith; RAF Sywell; RAF Upwood; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; York
Truck Loaded with Damaged Master Aircraft
Photo 1 is of five airmen around a truck with a damaged aircraft.
Photo 2 is the aircraft about to move watched by boys.
Photo 3 is a group of nine airmen at the rear of the trailer.
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Tags: ground crew