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Bombing up a Wellington
Photo 2 is a close up of the bombs being loaded into the Wellington. Two armourers are steadying the bomb and a third is winding a winch to load the bomb.
Short Stirling
199 Squadron
Second is of small car, captioned "Crew - bus", my first car bought when on ops with 199 Sqdn.'
Third is of right-hand forward nose of a…
Two men sitting on a bomb trolley
Flight sergeant Cuthbert with aircrew and ground personnel
Loading Mines
In the second image a mine is on a trolley. Chalked on the mine is the…
Ground Crew and a Cookie
Tags: bomb trolley; ground crew; service vehicle
Sixteen Airmen and an 8000 pound Bomb
Special Christmas Card for the Reich
Painted on it is 'Ontario Citizens Special Xmas Card for the Reich' and has the names of where the crews originate - 'Ottawa, London, Perkins, Toronto, Timmins,…
Armourers and Mines
Alvin, Ted and Jack with their Halifax
The first has three men sitting on a bomb trolley under the port side of a Halifax. It is captioned 'L to R - Alvin, Ted & Jack on 500lb bombs'.
The second image is an airman at the rear gun turret. It is captioned 'Alvin…
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bomb trolley; Halifax; service vehicle
Armourers and Ground Crew
In photo 1 there are nine airmen behind a trolley of bombs. It is captioned 'L to R, - Wilson, Bowles, Phillips, Williams, Sheppard, Williams, Self, Osborne, our French Canadian.'
In photo 2 are five armourers…
Seven Airmen and a 4000lb bomb
On the nose is 16 bombs and 'Sweet Adeline'.
It is annotated 'PL-29631'.
Loaded Bomb Bay
Eight Air and Ground Crew and a Bomb Load
Behind is a Lancaster 'P', identified in the Inventory as 'KB760 NA-P'.
Seven Airmen
The crew members are identified 'Des Egan, Rocky Owen,George Warren, Steve Quinn, Self, Bill Williams, Dave Menzies'.
Additional information…
Tags: aircrew; bomb trolley; Lancaster; service vehicle
Pilot sitting on a Cookie
Squadron and Mitchell
Halifax
Tags: bomb trolley; Halifax; service vehicle; tractor
Halifax Bombing Up
Geoffrey Green and crew
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies…
Lancaster Bombing Up
Thirteen airman
Tags: aircrew; bomb trolley; ground crew; Lancaster; service vehicle
Seven Airmen and a Mosquito
Tags: 608 Squadron; aircrew; bomb trolley; bombing; Mosquito; service vehicle
Leslie Alfred Davies and crew
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