The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Grottaglie, Italy. 1943. Ground crew personnel of No. 3 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF, refuelling a Curtiss P40 Kittyhawk bomber aircraft at an Italian airfield in Italy a few minutes after their arrival at the airfield by American air transport. Refuelling is carried out by aid of hand pumps.
Grottaglie, Italy. 1943. Ground crew personnel of No. 3 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF, refuelling a Curtiss P40 Kittyhawk bomber aircraft at an Italian airfield in Italy a few minutes after their arrival
Grottaglie Airfield, Italy. 1943. RAAF and Italian ground crew personnel together at the airfield. The Italians work on Macchi bomber aircraft and the Australians of No. 3 Squadron RAAF, on Curtiss P4
Grottaglie, Italy. 1943. RAAF airmen admire an Italian statue, showing an eagle on the top, at an airfield from which they are now operating Curtiss P40 Kittyhawk fighter bomber aircraft.
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
Grottaglie, Italy. September 1943. RAAF fitters gather up their kits after disembarking from an American Douglas C47 Dakota transport aircraft that has just brought them to an airfield in Italy from w
Malta. c. July 1943. Ground crew members of No. 3 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF showing RAF personnel the procedures for refuelling a Curtiss P40 Kittyhawk aircraft.
