The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Ground crew personnel of No 450 Squadron (Sqn), RAAF, at work on a Curtiss P40 Kittyhawk aircraft at Grottalgie airfield. Known as the 'Desert Harassers', 450 Sqn served in the Middle East, Sicily and Italy during the Second World War. This particular Kittyhawk has been decorated with Nose Art depicting a boxing kangaroo, which has been painted onto the air intake cover panel in the foreground.
Pilot, Flight Sergeant Tim Forneau of Hawkers Bay, New Zealand, standing on a muddy tyre of his Curtiss P40 Kittyhawk fighter bomber aircraft. He is a member of the 'Desert Harassers', No 450 Squadron
Informal portrait of 401283 Flying Officer (later Flight Lieutenant), Humphrey Arthur Cecil (Slim) Jowett of 450 Squadron, RAAF, at Kairouan, Tunisia, standing next to a Curtiss P40 Kittyhawk aircraft
Italy. 1943. Ground crew personnel of No. 450 Squadron RAAF, now operating in Italy, at work on one of the squadrons Curtiss P40 Kittyhawk aircraft. Note the boxing kangaroo nose art.
Informal portrait of 401283 Flying Officer (later Flight Lieutenant), Humphrey Arthur Cecil (Slim) Jowett of 450 Squadron, RAAF, at Kairouan, Tunisia, standing in front of a Curtiss P40 Kittyhawk airc
Based at Agnone, Flying Officer D Davidson (left) of Sydney, NSW, looks on whilst his fitter, 16528 Leading Aircraftman Jack Ronald Clifford Featherby (right) of Sydney, NSW, puts the finishing touche
Sicily, Italy. 1943. Pilot Officer (PO) D. Minchin, No. 450 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF, of Chatswood, NSW, stands beside his Kittyhawk aircraft with nose art depicting fly spray targetting two swastika
