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Grottaglie, Italy. 1943. A group of RAAF airmen sitting around in an improvised operations room of No. 450 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF now operating in Italy. In the foreground, Squadron Leader J. Bartle of Weerona, WA, tries on a parachute.
Grottaglie, Italy. 1943. An informal group portrait of pilots of No. 450 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF, operating in Italy. They are on the doorstep of the former residence of Bruno Mussolini, now the liv
Grottaglie, Italy. 1943. A hastily improvised operations room built by pilots of No. 3 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF, operating from the Italian mainland.
Grottaglie, Italy. 1943. Padre J. P. McNamara, formerly Parish priest of Brunswick in the Archdiocese of Melbourne, saying Mass for Italian airmen in Italy. The Padre is with No. 450 (Kittyhawk) Squad
Grottaglie, Italy. 1943. Padre J. P. McNamara, formerly Parish priest of Brunswick in the Archdiocese of Melbourne, saying Mass for Italian airmen in Italy. The Padre is with No. 450 (Kittyhawk) Squad
Grottaglie, Italy. 1943. Informal portrait taken in the improvised Operations Room of a Squadron operating from an airfield in Southern Italy, during the visit by Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Tedder to the
Grottaglie, Italy. 1943. Ground crew personnel of No. 450 Squadron RAAF, now operating in Italy, work on a Curtiss P40 Kittyhawk aircraft used by the Squadron. Note that some of the airmen are standin
