The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Ground crew of No. 451 Squadron RAAF carry out maintenance and repairs to a squadron Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX, probably at Cuers Airfield. The man crouching over his work in the foreground is Corporal Harold Reynolds Johnson. (Donor M. Johnson)
El Gamil, Egypt, 1943-03. At an airfield near Port Said, ground crew of No. 451 Squadron RAAF carry out maintenance and repairs to the squadron's Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX MA456. The squadron was inv
Corporal Harold Reynolds Johnson, a mechanic with No. 451 Squadron RAAF, standing beside the squadron's Supermarine Spitfire Mk VIII MT687. The aircraft is parked in front of a hangar at the airfield
Calvi, Corsica, France. c. 1944-07. Corporal Harold Reynolds Johnson, a mechanic with No. 451 Squadron RAAF, working on the engine of one of the squadron's Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX aircraft. (Donor
Calvi, Corsica, France. c. 1944-07. Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX MH771 of No. 451 Squadron RAAF parked on the local airfield. (Donor H. Johnson)
Calvi, Corsica, France. c. 1944-07. Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX MH772 of No. 451 Squadron RAAF parked on the side of an airfield. Another of the squadron's Spitfires is parked in the background. (Donor
The nose of a Supermarine Spitfire Mk VIII of No. 451 Squadron RAAF with the image of a kookaburra painted on it, probably at Cuers airfield in southern France.