The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Plymouth, England. C. 1940-07. Portrait of Flying Officer Vic Hodgkinson, a pilot of No. 10 (Sunderland) Squadron RAAF based at RAF Station Mount Batten, on the way to board his aircraft complete with flying kit, pigeons in a basket and a steel helmet. The carrier pigeons are carried as an emergency measure during operational flights.
Plymouth, England. C. 1940-07. Portrait of Flying Officer Vic Hodgkinson, a crew member of a Sunderland aircraft of No. 10 Squadron RAAF based at RAF Station Mount Batten with the cage for carrier pig
Plymouth, England. C. 1940-07. Portrait of Flying Officer Vic Hodgkinson, a pilot and crew member of a Sunderland aircraft of No. 10 Squadron RAAF based at RAF Station Mount Batten, with a carrier pig
Plymouth, England. C. 1940-07. Portrait of Flying Officer Vic Hodgkinson, a pilot of No. 10 (Sunderland) Squadron RAAF, based at RAF Station Mount Batten, with RAF Coastal Command.
Plymouth, England. 1945-01-18. Exterior of a Pigeon loft housing pigeons carried by Sunderland aircraft of No. 10 Squadron RAAF at RAF Station Mount Batten during operational flights, in case of an em
Plymouth, England. 1945-01-18. Sergeant C. J. Cranstoun, NCO in charge of pigeons at RAF Station Mount Batten from which Sunderland aircraft of No. 10 Squadron RAAF operates, puts Aussie into his carr
Plymouth, England. C. 1940-07. Portrait of Flying Officer W. N. Gibson, a pilot of No. 10 (Sunderland) Squadron RAAF based at RAF Station Mount Batten.
