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Informal portrait of 400735 Flight Lieutenant Len S. Reid DFC, Officer in Charge of 79 Squadron sitting on the wing of his Spitfire Mk VIII, A58-522 at Pitoe Airfield. The aircraft has the name "Hal-Far" on the engine cowling, below the pilot's window. Halfar was the airstrip in Malta, from where Flight Lieutenant Reid flew when he was serving with No. 185 Squadron RAF, from 3 June to 31 October 1942.
Morotai, Netherland East Indies. August 1945. Informal portrait of Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Kenneth R. Mitchell standing beside a 79 Fighter Squadron Spitfire Mk VIII, A58-643 on Pitoe Airfield. Flt
Morotai, Netherland East Indies. 9 September 1945. Portrait of the maintenance and servicing personnel of "A" and "B" Flights Groundstaff and Workshop Section and some pilots of 79 Squadron, RAAF. Beh
Morotai, Netherland East Indies. 9 September 1945. Portrait of the Ground Servicing personnel and some pilots of 79 Squadron, RAAF, in front of one of the Squadron's Spitfire MK VIII aircraft. Identif
Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands, Papua. October 1943. 407174 Flight Lieutenant D. H. (David) Hopton, Flight Commander in the cockpit of his No. 79 Squadron RAAF Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vc aircraft, A58-13
Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands, Papua. October 1943. The pilot's personal motif, "Nipps Emergency Sea-Trip", nose art, on the port side engine cowlings of the No. 79 Squadron RAAF Mk Vc Spitfire aircraft
Goodenough Island, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua. 20 July 1943. No. 79 Squadron RAAF Spitfire Mk VC No. A58-173, code UP-U (RAF JG740) with the nickname "Sweet F. A." on the port side engine cowling,
