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Naples Italy 1945, Port Elizabeth 1942
Four photographs of Naples area August 1945.
Open menu airmen's mess, 42 ANS Port Elizabeth. Captioned 'The only good meal we had in the mess'.
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 Naples, taken from a balcony of what now is Villa Giullia (Via Armando Diaz 158) looking down the street in the direction of Mount Vesuvius.
Four photographs of Port Elizabeth, two of his billet.
Identification kindly…
Four photographs of Port Elizabeth, two of his billet.
Identification kindly…
11 FIS Shallufa Course 20
14 airmen arranged in two rows in front of a building. Each man is named on the reverse.
Tags: aircrew; RAF Shallufa; training
Hannover and Wesel
Top left - view across street of a damaged three story building.
Top left middle - view across river with downed bridge.
Top middle right - view across water of bridge with span blown up.
Top right - view across street with military vehicles of…
Top left middle - view across river with downed bridge.
Top middle right - view across water of bridge with span blown up.
Top right - view across street with military vehicles of…
Tags: bombing
Detmold
Left - view of castle with round tower captioned 'Das Schloss, Detmold'.
Top - view of street with destroyed buildings. Captioned Detmold, June 1945'.
Bottom - view of gateway with truck driving through and people outside. Captioned 'RAF station,…
Top - view of street with destroyed buildings. Captioned Detmold, June 1945'.
Bottom - view of gateway with truck driving through and people outside. Captioned 'RAF station,…
Tags: service vehicle
RAF personnel and wife
On the left page top - a photograph of five aircrew wearing tunics with brevet standing in line in a garden. Captioned '23 July 1945, John Parker, F/O White (bomb aimer), self, F/O K A Smith (Skipper), George Wellington'.
Bottom - half length…
Bottom - half length…
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; flight engineer; love and romance; pilot
Aircrew and Lancaster
Top - two airmen, one wearing battledress, the other a tunic with pilot's brevet and both with peaked caps, standing behind the port tailplane of a Lancaster. Submitted with description 'P/O Jock Cassells and 2nd pilot, P/O E. White - both of 106…
Tags: 106 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; pilot; RAF Coningsby
Jock Leeming, crew and Lancaster
Six members of a Lancaster crew with aircraft in background, submitted with caption; “Jock Leeming and crew - 207 Sqdn Spilsby August 1945”
Tags: 207 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Spilsby
28 airmen
28 airmen arranged in three rows in front of a wooden hut, captioned 'Ken Redwood, Dave Murphy and others at A.C.N.C.O.S. Locking - August 1945'.
Tags: aircrew; RAF Locking; training
Air gunner instructor course
Six airmen arranged in two rows in front of a large building. One photograph has been annotated 'Mildenhall 46 Alf Jack Cooper Self Bob Freddie'.
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; RAF Mildenhall; training
No 73 AGI Course
Six airmen arranged in two rows in front of a brick building. It is annotated 'EAAS 1320 - No 73 AGI Course - Aug 1945'.
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; training
Crew of Enola Gay
Eleven United States Air Force aircrew standing and squatting in two rows in front of a B-29. Colonel Paul Tibbets is rear row third from the right. On the reverse 'Crew of Enola Gay before take off.
B-29 aircraft The Great Artiste.
A man (USAF Crew member) pointing to the nose art on an USAF B-29 aircraft The Great Artiste. Nose art shows a smiling man in tails with Great Artiste above. This aircraft flew as an observation aircraft on Hiroshima and Nagasaki operations.…
North Tinian Field
Air to ground view of airbase with multiple runways on the tip of an island. Another island beyond on the left. On the reverse 'North Field Tinian Aug 1945' but not in Group Captain Leonard Cheshire's writing. Circa 1980s reprint of a 1945 colour…
Tags: aerial photograph; runway
Fighter base North end of Saipan
Air to ground view of airbase at the end of an island with a hill beyond, On the reverse 'Fighter base north end of Saipan August 1945' but not in Group Captain Leonard Cheshire's writing. Circa 1980s reprint of a 1945 colour photograph. Additional…
Tags: aerial photograph
Tankers off Saipan
Air to ground view of many ships anchored off an island. On the reverse 'Tankers off Saipan Aug 45' but not in Group Captain Leonard Cheshire's writing. Circa 1980s reprint of a 1945 colour photograph probably taken from B-29 Enola Gay. Additional…
Tags: B-29