MEA1819 Accession Number: MEA1819

Description

Guidonia, Italy. c. June 1944. RAAF Chaplain J. McNamara, whose parish is at Brunswick, Melbourne, receives a gift of cherries from an Italian farmer who visits him at this tent on the airfield near Rome used by RAAF Kittyhawk fighter bomber squadrons.

Details

Accession Number
MEA1819
Photographer
Flying Officer Laurence Craddock Le Guay
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Support: Nitrate
Date Made
c June 1944
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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