This Interview was recorded by Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> South Africa]]> Japan]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Southend-on-Sea]]> 1939]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1943]]> Claire Bennett]]> This Interview was recorded by Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending OH transcription. Allocated]]> Pending OH summary. Allocated C Campbell]]> KC: Ok. Hello. This is Wing Commander Ken Cook DFC. I joined the Royal Air Force in October 1941, U/T air crew and after training in Canada I came, returned back to the UK, commissioned as a young pilot officer air bomber and went through various conversion training courses in the UK and eventually joined up with a crew. And our first squadron was Number 9 Squadron at Bardney in Lincolnshire flying Lancasters in Number 5 Group of Bomber Command. After about ten ops with 9 Squadron we were as a crew recruited by the Pathfinder Force which was based in Cambridgeshire and so we were as a crew posted to do additional specialised training as at that time new radar equipment was being brought in and introduced to Bomber Command and in my case it was my job to learn the gadgets known as H2S, Gee and Loran. So, my role changed from being a straightforward air bomber to becoming a radar navigator and air bomber and so it was my job particularly to work the H2S which had a capability for uses in airborne navigation device. And of course, also it’s main role with the Pathfinders was, was identifying German targets and it enabled the Pathfinder crews to find the German targets and to mark them with target indicators so that the main force crews of Bomber Command coming in behind us could identify where the target was and very often bombing on our markers. So we had to be very accurate how we dropped them and where we dropped them and I did this, I ended up doing a total of forty five ops, thirty five of those was as a member of a Pathfinder crew. We eventually having started out with the Pathfinders at Bourn in Cambridgeshire my squadron were then deployed in about April of ’44 to Coningsby in Lincolnshire to join with Number 83 Squadron that had been posted up there from Wyton. And our job was to work with the special force under Wing Commander Leonard Cheshire who was devising a system of finding the targets where the Germans where assembling V weapons on the French coast and in Belgium. And our job was to illuminate the target with parachute flares so that he trained a special force of Mosquito dive bombers that could lay the target markers in these tunnels so that our main force crews from 5 Group and other Groups could come over and do area or intensive accurate bombing as well on these targets. And I completed my forty fifth op in 1944 and was posted to RAF Fiskerton in Lincolnshire as the station radar nav officer. My job was to, we had two squadrons there, 49 and 189 and my job was to fly with these crews and check them out on their ability to use their radar equipment because now the main force were getting the same sort of radar gear that the Pathfinders had had for some time. And so it was my job to make sure the air crew when they, before they went on ops could operate their new radar equipment. And I stayed there for a year or two and eventually was posted to Headquarters, Number 1 Group at Bawtry as the Group radar navigation officer. My job was to oversee all the squadrons, all the Lancaster squadrons in 1 Group to ensure that the crews were properly trained in operating their radar equipment. Can I stop there? Right. Let’s carry on then.
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On some of the incidents that come to mind one in particular because the Lancaster bomber we all wear warm clothing because the, in the middle of winter the temperatures in the aircraft could become extremely low and in fact if you had to use the elsan at the back of the aircraft it would be extremely low and freezing. And on one occasion I was forced to go back there and use the elsan and I discovered the temperature was minus fifty three degrees Celsius and of course, in having to use the elsan and lower the clothing etcetera I found that my bottom was sticking to the seat to a little bit when I tried to stand up. But I had to stand up because at that time the skipper was calling me, ‘Come on, Ken. We’re only ten miles from the target.’ So I had to hurry up and get back. But in doing so I experienced a little a bit of pain [laughs] in certain lower regions. The other, some of the other aspects of my career was at having completed forty five ops I was then sent off to do jobs as I mentioned with other stations and other squadrons and taking me to the end of the war I applied for a Short Service Commission and this was granted. And after a couple of years the Air Ministry offered me a peacetime Permanent Commission which I accepted and I was down the rank of flight lieutenant and so I then was asked to move out from Bomber Command and become trained with peacetime navigation courses and I thought well, perhaps I’m going to shoot now into somewhere like Transport Command but none of it. Having completed my peacetime navigation course I was then asked by Air Ministry to go through the night fighter OCU at Leeming where I was then trained again to become a navigator radar operator with the AI equipment on night fighters. And so after the appropriate course at Leeming I was then posted to 23 Squadron at Coltishall on Mosquito Mark 36s and I flew with them for about two and a half years until one day I was told that I was to go back to Leeming as a squadron leader to set up the ground school for the introduction of the first jet night fighters. The Meteor NF11 was coming in and I was to head up the ground school with the expansion of the RAFs night fighter force both in the UK and Germany and also the odd squadron in Malta and Cyprus. And so I did that job for about two years and eventually was posted to RAF Newton which was then the headquarters of 12 Fighter Group as the Group navigation officer. And I did the staff duties there but also managed to keep on flying with some of the squadrons in 12 Group, night fighter squadrons until eventually one day the AOC asked me would I like to go back on a squadron as a flight commander. And so the AOC of 12 Group had me posted back to West Malling where I became a flight commander on number 85 Squadron as a navigator which was an unusual post which I enjoyed. And I did that for just over a year and one day the AOC of 11 Group sent for me and said, ‘Cook, do you think you could command a night fighter squadron?’ I said, 'Yes sir.’ He said, ‘Well, you’ve got one tomorrow. ‘You’re going to become a wing commander.’ And so I did that and I became the CO of one of the other squadrons at West Malling called 153 and I was made an acting wing commander and only had that job for about a couple of months when they decided to close the airfield because our flights were getting involved with civil aircraft flying in from the continent, particularly at night. And so they closed the airfield at West Malling and I, and I took 153 Squadron up to Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire and stayed with them for a while and eventually we changed our number to become 25 Squadron. And I completed my two years with the 25 squadron, 153/25 squadron and then one day I was told, ‘You’re going to the staff college.’ And I thought oh I’m going to learn to read and write again. But I did a one year course at the Staff College at Bracknell and after that the Air Ministry in their wisdom said, ‘You’ve done enough flying you’ve got to do an admin job.’ So they posted me and my wife to Aden as a wing commander in the organization branch which was concerned with improving the airfields throughout the Aden Protectorate and then up in the Gulf. So I did that for about two years and then I came back. I’m not quite sure what to do after that but I eventually did a job as the staff officer to the Home Commander, Home Defence Forces which was an organisation which has now been set up to deal with what would happen if there was a nuclear attack on Britain and what would the Air Force be doing to help out. And one of my jobs was to get involved with working out plans on that. And things have gradually moved along until eventually I decided to take early retirement and I left the RAF after twenty six years service in 1947.
Interviewer: And to go back to your, your Bomber Command days it’s always very interesting how the crews got together I think. Now, were you, how did you? I know you go into a sort of a hangar sort of thing and you mill around. There’s no organisation. Were you expecting that or, and did you know somebody? How did your crew come together?
KC: Well, when you got in the early stages of training you started to think about crewing up when you were flying on Wellingtons. You went, in my case I went to Cottesmore which was number 14 OTU and there you meet up with pilots, the wireless operator, straight navigator, air gunners. They were all brought in there and you’d chat with them and eventually you agreed to form a crew. And that’s what we did.
Interviewer: And it proved satisfactory.
KC: Yeah.
Interviewer: Didn’t it?
KC: For instance my skipper was an Australian.
Interviewer: Ah.
KC: Yeah. I was a West Country Gloucestershire man. The other navigator was a Yorkshire man. The mid-upper gunner was a Canadian. The wireless operator was a Londoner and the tail gunner was a Scotsman. That was my crew.
Interviewer: League of Nations.
KC: Yeah.
Interviewer: And you obviously all got on and you all gelled.
KC: We gelled. Yes. Yes. We stayed together for forty five trips. Yeah.
Interviewer: And you’ve mentioned Leonard Cheshire. Did you have much to do with him?
KC: Well, now Leonard Cheshire was based at Woodhall Spa but once we started and once my squadron had come up from 8 Group and we were now at Coningsby with alongside 83, the Pathfinder Squadron when we had briefings on a pre-briefing on a raid Cheshire would come in to see, hear to the breifing. But he particularly once we’d done the raid he would come back because often he would go on the raid himself. He would come back and listen to the debriefing and if things were not coming out clear from the debriefing of the crews he would cut in to explain what was going on where he was concerned in the air. To sort out any, so the intelligence people doing the debriefing could get a more accurate story of what was happening over the other side.
Interviewer: Did you form any opinions of him as a —
KC: Oh, he was the top boy really. Yes. He was, he had tremendous respect from all the all the, all the aircrew like myself.
Interviewer: Yes, so —
KC: What he was and what he did and of course he did a hundred ops, didn’t he?
Interviewer: He did.
KC: Yeah. Can I stop now?
Interviewer: Yeah [laughs] That was Wing Commander Kenneth Cook DFC, retired RAF Bomber Command talking at Thorpe Camp on the 24th Of September about his wartime experiences. Thank you, Wing Commander.]]>
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#1 Bob in a hut with laundry hanging up to dry.
#2 A head and shoulders photograph of Bob in uniform with his navigator's brevet.
#3 A head and shoulders photograph of Bob in uniform, again with a navigator's brevet.]]>
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On the reverse is a photographer stamp 'McCollum's Photoshop'.]]> McCollum's Photoshop]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> United States]]> Georgia--Albany]]> 1942-06-20]]> On the reverse 'Turner Field Georgia. USA. 1942'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> United States]]> Georgia--Turner County]]> 1942]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> United States]]> Georgia--Turner County]]> 1942]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> United States]]> Georgia--Turner County]]> 1942-06-20]]> Having completed their training in the spring of 1944 they crossed to Britain on the New Amsterdam. Due to the quantity of chocolate Rex had consumed on the crossing the medical staff thought that he had an appendicitis and he was admitted to a hospital in Glasgow on arrival at Gourock. The hospital was initially empty so Rex was treated very well but shortly after his arrival the wounded from the D Day invasion started to arrive and Rex was found fit enough to join 223 Squadron at RAF Oulton which were flying the B-24. Rex was not too impressed with the aircraft as they were war weary veterans cast off from the 8th US Army Air Force. Although Rex was trained as a Wireless operator / air gunner he flew all his operations as a wireless operator. Rex remembers that his main duties were to listen out for weather diversions he also remembers that there was a piece of equipment that he had that showed aircraft close to them which was very unreliable, probably Fishpond. In August 1944 223 Squadron became part of 100 Group flying radio countermeasures, jamming the German radar and communications frequencies. Rex relates how the squadron aircraft would sometimes leave the main force bomber stream and head for another potential target dropping Window to divide the fighter defences.
Rex flew 20 operations with his crew and related that on one operation to Berlin they were getting short of fuel so diverted to the crash runway at RAF Manston and the groundcrew told them that they only had enough fuel for two minutes of flight. In February 1945 he developed bronchitis and was grounded by the medical staff. On the next operation that crew were shot down over Germany and all the flight deck crew died the navigator and one of the beam gunners managed to bale out. Rex relates that if he had been on the operation he would have died. He was told by the surviving beam gunner that the second beam gunner never wore his parachute harness on operations and was last seen trying to find his harness.
While he was recuperating his late captain’s brother came to visit the squadron he was flying the C47 transporting equipment to Europe and Rex manage to get himself two flights to Brussels. On his return to flying duties Rex only flew two more operations before the European war ended in May. He comments that his captain for those two flights was a Lord Briscoe.
Rex relates that on one of his leave periods he was walking out in the country and a low flying V-1 passed overhead and the engine stopped and it landed and exploded in a field close by.
Rex did not return to Canada until December 1945 crossing in the Queen Elizabeth. He returned to Toronto married the girl that he was writing to during his time in Great Britain. He worked for a small company manufactured high voltage lighting equipment as a salesman until he retired.
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Dan Ellin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Trevor Hardcastle]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Bahamas]]> Canada]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Bahamas--Nassau]]> England--Kent]]> England--Norfolk]]> Germany--Berlin]]> 1945]]>
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Geoff was born and lived in the same area of Grimsby all his life, at the date of his interview he was 93. The first part of the interview concentrated on his experience of finding a German butterfly bomb close to his home, Geoff described how after an air raid the local children would explore the local area looking for shrapnel. On this particular day when he was about 13, he and a friend found this device which looked different, he asked a soldier what it might be but he didn’t know. His friends father did not want it in their house and Geoff’s father said the same thing although they did not know what it was. Geoff was standing outside their house when a bomb disposal team came by probably looking for the bomblets. They told Geoff to drop it they then surrounded it with sandbags and detonated it with a small explosive charge which blew out some of the house windows. Geoff considered himself to be lucky as although they had mistreated the device it had not exploded, he also made the point that no one knew what they were as the authorities decided not to issue any information about the bomblets. He could not remember any anti aircraft guns locally but did remembers a large gun nearby.
Geoff described how his father a fisherman had build an Anderson air-raid shelter in their back garden and when the sirens alerted them to a raid the whole family gathered there. He described how one night a German aircraft caught in the searchlight beam dived down and dropped their bomb quite close to the house. He made the point that air raids on Grimsby were not that frequent unlike Hull just across the river, although Grimsby at that time was a major fishing port where literally you could cross the harbour stepping from one trawler to the next. Geoff remembered that early in the war the aircraft they saw were German but later on the large formations of Lancasters were evident.
Having left school at 14 he went to work at the local Rolls Royce dealership as an apprentice but disliked the work. Just post the European war conscription was still in place but Geoff volunteered to join the army for five years as you could choose your job and were paid more. He was trained as a signaller, his initial posting was the army headquarters in Paris which as it was just post war Eisenhour and Montgomery were there. Geoff was then posted to Egypt which was very different to Paris, living in tents awful food. Another lucky escape happened there, with a group of soldiers they were digging trenches by hand to be used as latrines, a fellow corporal told Geoff take your troops and go for a break then come back and relieve me, but the trench collapsed and killed them as Geoff and his group were on break.
Having completed his time in the army Geoff became a lorry driver during the week and a taxi driver at the weekend and he remembered the filming of Memphis Belle at RAF Binbrook.
Almost as a postscript Geoff remembered another lucky escape, early in the war in many towns and cities the school children were evacuated to safer areas to escape the German bombers. He remembers being gathered at school expecting to be told that they were being evacuated to Canada but a ship carrying evacuees had been sunk near the Canadian coast so the plan was abandoned. ]]>
Dan Ellin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Trevor Hardcastle]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Grimsby]]> France]]> France--Paris]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> 1943-06]]>

Four photographs of Port Elizabeth, two of his billet.

Identification kindly provided by Moos Raaijmakers
of the Finding the location WW1 & WW2 Facebook group.
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Second, three men in uniform. David far right and the man on the left are wearing jackets and the man in the centre is in shirt and braces with his sleeves rolled up. Beds are arranged behind the men and lights hang from the ceiling above them.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> A Pollen]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Artwork]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Germany]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> 1942-09-06]]> 1942-09-07]]> John Taplin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Christine Chapman]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Charles Francis Saunders]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Herefordshire]]> Wales--Carmarthenshire]]> Scotland--Moray]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Cheshire]]> 1943-01]]> 2005-07]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Navy]]> Ivan Lochlyn Ure]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Poetry]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]> Germany]]> Lithuania]]> Poland]]> Germany--Barth]]> Lithuania--Šilutė]]> Poland--Tychowo]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> The photograph on the top right of the left page shows three men sitting on bunk beds in an accommodation hut.
The photograph on the bottom right of the left page shows some people hanging out of a window.
The photograph on the top left of the right page shows a cars on a road. Situated behind the road is First St. Andrew’s United Church, London, Ontario.
The photograph on the top right of the right page shows Detroit skyline taken with a body of water in the foreground.
The photograph on the bottom left of the right page shows Dundas St., London, Ontario, facing east. The Huron and Erie Building and Loew’s Theatre are visible.
The photograph on the bottom right of the right page is looking north on Woodward Avenue, Detroit, taken from outside J L Hudson Department Store. The tall building just left of centre is the back of the David Whitney Building (Aloft Hotels) and the building in the centre is of Fyfe Building.

Identification kindly provided by Michael Paré of the Finding the location WW1 & WW2 Facebook group, Mike Stilgoe, and Frank Schilder.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Stilgoe]]> Frank Schilder]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> United States]]> Michigan]]> Michigan--Detroit]]> Canada]]> Ontario]]> Ontario--London]]>
The photograph on the top centre of the left page shows a dinghy with trees lining the shore in the background.
The photograph on the top right of the left page shows a man holding a cricket bat standing in front of a wicket.
The photograph on the bottom left and right of the left page both show three men in a rowing boat.
The photograph on the right page shows bunk beds inside an accommodation hut. Shoes can be seen underneath the bed and uniforms and other articles of clothing hanging in the background. On the reverse there is a hand written note "HUT 18R". ]]>
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The photograph on the top right of the left page shows a building with the caption "MESS HALL".
The photograph on the bottom centre of the left page shows a building with the caption "ACADEMIC BUILDING".
The photograph on the top centre of the right page shows three men in shorts on a grass field, captioned "A RINGER".
The photograph on the bottom left of the right page shows a man in a swimming pool holding a ball above his head.
The photograph on the bottom right of the right page shows some men in shorts on a diving board facing towards a swimming pool.
On the reverse of all three photographs on the left page a stamp dated "MAY 1 1942" and the words "McCOLLUM'S PHOTO SHOP ALBANY . GA." and the number "012" can be seen.

Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Frank Schilder]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> United States]]> Georgia]]> Georgia--Albany]]> 1942-05-01]]>
The photograph on the right of the left page shows a man crouching in a doorway with a dog, captioned "PEGGY".
The photograph on the left of the right page shows a man laying on a cushion with the caption "NOTE DOUBLE-CHIN".
The photograph on the right of the right page shows a group of men sitting in an accommodation hut, with the caption "CHEESED-OFF".
On the reverse of the photograph on the left of the left page is the number "004" and a stamp with an indecipherable date and words surrounding the date.
On the reverse of the photograph on the right of the left page is the number "004" and a stamp with an indecipherable date and words surrounding the date.
On the reverse of the photograph on the right of the right page is the number "006" and a stamp, reading "McCOLLUM'S PHOTO SHOP ALBANY . G.A " and the date "APR 3 1942".
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The top right photograph on the left page shows fields with trees in the background, and captioned "PLAYING FIELDS".
The bottom left photograph on the left page shows trees with buildings in the background. It is captioned "THE CHAPEL".
The bottom right photograph on the left page shows military personnel on parade with accommodation blocks in the background. The photograph is captioned "RETREAT PARADE 'B' SQUADRON TO THE FORE."
The top left photograph on the right page shows a patch of land with huts, buildings and poles in the background, it is captioned "THE FLIGHT LINE".
The top right photograph on the right page shows a man in military uniform standing in an accommodation hut, with the caption "READY FOR INSPECTION".
The bottom left photograph on the right page shows a man sitting in bed holding a pen and paper in an accommodation hut. The photograph is captioned "SHONK WTITES HOME."
The bottom right photograph on the right page shows a dog curling up with puppies on a bed, captioned "PEGGY AND PUPS."
Both left and right pages are captioned "TURNER FIELD".
On the reverse of the photograph on the top left on the left page shows a stamp dated "APR 7 1942" and "McCOLLUM'S PHOTO SHOP ALBANY. GA". and the number 38.
On the reverse of the photograph on the bottom right on the left page shows a stamp dated "APR 17 1942" and "McCOLLUM'S PHOTO SHOP ALBANY. GA". and an indecipherable number.
On the reverse of the photograph on the top left on the right page shows a stamp dated "APR 17 1942" and "McCOLLUM'S PHOTO SHOP ALBANY. GA". and an indecipherable number.
On the reverse of the photograph on the top right on the right page shows a stamp dated "APR 17 1942" and "McCOLLUM'S PHOTO SHOP ALBANY. GA". and the number "41".
On the reverse of the photograph on the bottom left on the right page shows a stamp dated "APR 26 1942" and "McCOLLUM'S PHOTO SHOP ALBANY. GA". and the number "41".
On the reverse of the photograph on the bottom right on the right page shows a stamp dated "APR 26 1942" and "McCOLLUM'S PHOTO SHOP ALBANY. GA". and the number "41". Also handwritten are the words "Peggy and Pups". ]]>
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The top right photograph on the left page shows snow covering the ground with the accommodation huts in the background.
The bottom centre photograph on the left page shows a man in a military uniform sitting in the snow captioned "THE STOOGE".
The left page is captioned "31 P.D. MONCTON N.B. "
The top left photograph on the right page shows a body of water with hills in the background.
The top right photograph on the right page shows a body of water with ice floating on the surface.
The bottom centre photograph on the right page shows a horse towing a sledge with a person sitting in it. Houses are seen in the background.
The right page is captioned "MONCTON."
On the reverse of the photograph on the top right on the left page is stamped with a date "APR 17 1942", and the words "McCollum's Photo Shop, Albany GA." and an indecipherable number.
On the reverse of the photograph on the top left of the right page is a stamp dated "APR 7 1942" and the words "McCollum's Photo Shop, Albany GA" and a number "38".
On the reverse of the bottom centre photograph on the right page, there is a stamp, dated "APR 7 1942" and the words "McCollum's Photo Shop, Albany GA" and a number "38".]]>
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Top Right shows T E Lawrence's grave.
Middle left shows airmen attaching bombs to an aircraft
Middle right shows a line of Hawker biplanes standing on the grass.
Bottom centre shows the interior of an accommodation hut. ]]>
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