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MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. C. 1945-04. LOOKING INTO THE JAWS OF THIS SPITFIRE FIGHTER AIRCRAFT FROM THE AUSTRALIAN "GREY NURSE" SQUADRON GIVES SOME IDEA OF THE AIRCRAFT'S FIERCESOME APPEARANCE. NO. 457 (SPITFIRE) SQUADRON RAAF, WHICH PAINTS THE NOSES OF ITS AIRCRAFT WITH A SHARK'S NOSE AND JAWS, DRAWS ITS TITLE FROM THE AUSTRALIAN GREY NURSE SHARK, ONE OF THE DEADLIEST OF ALL SEA CREATURES. ITS MEMBERS FLY AGAINST THE JAPANESE IN THE SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC.
MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. C. 1945-04. ALTHOUGH ITS "TEETH" ARE PAINTED ON THE FUSELAGE TO RESEMBLE THE JAWS AND TEETH OF THE NOTORIOUS AUSTRALIAN GREY NURSE SHARK AFTER WHOM
MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. C. 1945-04. FOLLOWING THE PRECEDENT SET BY THE FAMOUS FLYING TIGER AIRCRAFT IN CHINA AND LATER BY AN AUSTRALIAN KITTYHAWK SQUADRON IN THE MIDDLE EA
MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. C. 1945-04. GROUND CREWS AT WORK UNDER A CAMOUFLAGE CANOPY. THIS FOUR-BLADED SPITFIRE, LIKE THE AUSTRALIAN GREY NURSE SHARK AFTER WHICH IT IS NAMED
MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-04-09. TWO AUSTRALIAN SPITFIRE PILOTS OF THE FAMOUS NO. 457 "GREY NURSE" (SPITFIRE) SQUADRON RAAF OF THE FIRST TACTICAL AIR FORCE, 404938 FLYI
MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. C. 1945-04. GROUND CREWS WORKING ON ONE OF THE AIRCRAFT OF NO. 457 (SPITFIRE) SQUADRON RAAF, KNOWN AS THE "GREY NURSE" SQUADRON, CODE ZP-W, SERIAL
Air crew of the No 457 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force at work on a Supermarine Spitfire VIII. Nicknamed the 'Grey Nurse' Squadron, the nose of this Spitfire has been painted as the face o
