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Note on Frederick Sawyer's service career
Note on Fred's service career.
Night scenes
Top - view at night of single story building - captioned 'The Candlelight'.
Left - view at night down town street. captioned 'Macon at night'.
Right - view of lighted up buildings at night. Captioned 'Macon at night'.
Bottom - Doorway at night -…
Left - view at night down town street. captioned 'Macon at night'.
Right - view of lighted up buildings at night. Captioned 'Macon at night'.
Bottom - Doorway at night -…
Basic school Cochran Field Macon Georgia - November 1942 - signatures
Signatures with home address of Americans related to course at Cochran Field in 1942. American flag bottom left and RAF ensign bottom right.
Birmingham Alabama
Top left - view down a street of a church with two towers, one taller that the other. Car parked in front.
Top right - A monument with statue in front of a multi-storey building with domed tower.
Bottom - view across city square with buildings…
Top right - A monument with statue in front of a multi-storey building with domed tower.
Bottom - view across city square with buildings…
Macon Georgia
Top left - view looking up the side of a skyscraper. Captioned 'W.M.A.Z Macon bankers insurance building, coolest spot in town'.
Top centre - looking down from tall building at car in street. Captioned 'from the top of W.M.A.Z'.
Middle centre -…
Top centre - looking down from tall building at car in street. Captioned 'from the top of W.M.A.Z'.
Middle centre -…
Cochran field Georgia
Top left - long single story building with water tower behind. Captioned 'Cochran field from our window'.
Top centre - RAF cadets crossing street in town with car on road,
Top right - single story barrack blocks with road in front. Captioned…
Top centre - RAF cadets crossing street in town with car on road,
Top right - single story barrack blocks with road in front. Captioned…
Airbase chapel
A chapel with spire with trees and cars parked alongside. To the left are three barrack style buildings amongst a series of utility poles.
Ten photographs - people and travelling
Top left - kit bags in barrack room. Captioned 'packed to leave'.
Top centre - men gathered round coaches - caption also for photograph below 'Fort Valley, the half way house'.
Top right - three men sitting with kit bags.
Middle left - town street…
Top centre - men gathered round coaches - caption also for photograph below 'Fort Valley, the half way house'.
Top right - three men sitting with kit bags.
Middle left - town street…
Crossroads
Looking across a road junction on an airbase with utility poles to seven single storey buildings with low pitched roofs.
Station HQ Souther Field near Americus, Georgia.
A building with pitched roof to one side of a large open space on which goal posts are set and a man is walking. To the left is a flagpole from which the United States flag flies. Utility posts are erected on the building and across the site. Other…
Americus Georgia
Top left - a man sitting at table inside a room writing. Captioned 'the boys write home'.
Top centre - a large white building with columned portico and domed roof. Captioned 'Methodist church Americus'.
Top right - a man sitting at table in barrack…
Top centre - a large white building with columned portico and domed roof. Captioned 'Methodist church Americus'.
Top right - a man sitting at table in barrack…
Keep 'em flying!
A classroom with long wooden desks and chairs facing a blackboard above which a banner reads ‘keep ‘em flying’.
Cemetery
A number of white crosses commemorating members of the Royal Air Force. The central cross reads ‘Leading Aircraftsman 1526951 - Hedger T.H. Killed flying - Macon GA’ on the cross bar and, above ‘RAF’ and below ‘Mar 28 1942. Aged 20’.
Souther field
Top left - view of distant buildings. Captioned 'Souther field mess hall, left rear'.
Top centre - parade of men marching. In the distance a long two story building with water tower behind. Captioned 'the day of victory for British cadets'.
Top…
Top centre - parade of men marching. In the distance a long two story building with water tower behind. Captioned 'the day of victory for British cadets'.
Top…
Georgia and flying
Top left - view from the air of open country - captioned 'dive towards earth in a PT 17 Stearman'
Top centre - view down tree lined street with house on the right. Captioned 'Melon avenue, ground is covered with wild water melons'.
Top right - view…
Top centre - view down tree lined street with house on the right. Captioned 'Melon avenue, ground is covered with wild water melons'.
Top right - view…
Cochran Field, Macon, Georgia
Various single and two storey buildings arranged around an open space with trees beyond. Utility poles cross the site and a United States flag flies from a flagpole with a group of men at its base. There is a road in the foreground and two parked…
Souther Field
A single storey building with a sign reading ‘Elev 470’ on its side. An ambulance is parked in front with four men sat on a collection of wooded benches and crates. A loud speaker is fixed to a small extension to the building.
Identification…
Identification…
Georgia flying
Top left - view from the air of a small town - captioned McRae, Georgia'.
Top centre - air-to air view of distant Tiger Moths. Captioned 'Formation'.
Top right - air-to-air view of two Tiger Moths in the distance. Captioned 'on the…
Top centre - air-to air view of distant Tiger Moths. Captioned 'Formation'.
Top right - air-to-air view of two Tiger Moths in the distance. Captioned 'on the…
Cochran Field, Macon, Georgia
A pair of two storey clapboard buildings stand beyond a shallow ditch with a tree in blossom. The buildings have wooden steps leading to open doors with adjacent external vertical ladders.
Additional identification kindly provided by Frank…
Additional identification kindly provided by Frank…
Flying
Top left - air to ground view of a small town and tree's captioned '"Leslie at 2000 ft'.
Top centre - a man standing in doorway wearing leather flying jacket and holding flying helmet. Captioned 'Just me'.
Top right - view from the air of open…
Top centre - a man standing in doorway wearing leather flying jacket and holding flying helmet. Captioned 'Just me'.
Top right - view from the air of open…
Americus and Souther field
Top - a large building with columned portico and trees to both sides. captioned 'First Methodist church Americus'.
Middle left - a distant long two story building with another at right angles on the right. Water tower behind the distant building.…
Middle left - a distant long two story building with another at right angles on the right. Water tower behind the distant building.…
Ten photographs - Albany and Turner field
Top left - view up a track to a large white house, Captioned 'Albany house'.
Top centre - three servicemen walking down a town street lined with palm trees. Captioned 'Main street Albany, Sunday morning'.
Top right - view across fields - captioned…
Top centre - three servicemen walking down a town street lined with palm trees. Captioned 'Main street Albany, Sunday morning'.
Top right - view across fields - captioned…
Souther Field near Americus, Georgia.
A two storey building set in open ground with bushes planted along the frontage. The United States flag flies from a flagpole in front and a water tower is behind.
Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.
Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.
Billet
A pile of bedding sits on a single bed frame along a wall. Next to the bed is a desk with a lamp under a window. Further bed ends can be seen opposite.
Fifteen airmen by a runway
Fifteen airmen wearing flying suits and helmets stand and sit around a group of buildings by a runway on which there is a Stearman. There is a car parked to one side.
Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.
Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.