The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Italy. c. 1944. Group portrait of RAAF airmen who are flying Wellingtons with a RAF squadron based in Italy. They form an all Australian crew in a group which numbers some 250 RAAF members. They teamed up in England in their Operational Training Unit (OTU) days, came to the Mediterranean area together. Left to right: Warrant Officer (WO) A. A. Ford, Navigator of Whiteman Creek, NSW; Flight Sergeant R. A. Seabrook, Wireless Operator-Air Gunner of Bondi, NSW; Pilot Officer R. Perkins, Pilot and Captain of Tooradin, Gippsland, Vic; WO R. Holmes, Bomb Aimer of Melbourne, Vic; WO J. McLay, Rear Gunner of Kensington Gardens, SA. Note the Vickers Wellington aircraft behind them.
Italy. c. 1944. Group portrait of RAAF airmen who are flying Wellingtons with a RAF squadron based in Italy. They form an all Australian crew in a group which numbers some 250 RAAF members. They teame
Italy. c. 1944. Informal portrait of Pilot Officer Ray Perkins of Tooradin, Vic, Pilot and Captain of an all Australian crew of a RAF Wellington bomber squadron operating in Italy.
Italy. April 1944. Warrant Officer R. Holmes, bomb aimer (left), and Pilot Officer Ray Perkins, pilot (right), attached to an RAF squadron, in the cockpit of a Vickers Wellington aircraft based in Ita
Italy. April 1944. Informal portrait of Warrant Officer R. Holmes of St Kilda, Vic, a bomb aimer with an RAF Wellington squadron based in Italy.
Salbani, Bengal, India. 1944-11-25. Group portrait of RAAF members in No. 356 (Liberator) Squadron RAF buying cups of tea from three itinerant char-wallahs (tea sellers). Left to right, back row: Warr
Salbani, Bengal, India. 1944-11-25. Group portrait of RAAF members in No. 356 (Liberator) Squadron RAF buying cups of tea from three itinerant char-wallahs (tea sellers). Left to right, back row: Warr
