SEA0019 Accession Number: SEA0019

Description

Alongside a Liberator bomber aircraft of No. 215 Squadron RAF of Eastern Air Command's Strategic Air Force, local labourers build a new taxi-way at Digri, carrying the rocks and other materials in cane baskets and laying them by hand. RAAF members comprise a large proportion of the crews in Strategic Air Force.

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Accession Number
SEA0019
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Support: Nitrate
Format: 3x4"
Date Made
27 November 1944
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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