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Photograph MALTA0180 Period 1950-1959Maintenance personnel of 78 Fighter Wing RAAF servicing Vampire jet aircraft at their base in Malta. The Wing was in Malta for garrison duty.

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Surveying crews handling a Vampire fighter aircraft at the Malta base of 78 Fighter Wing RAAF. The Wing was in Malta for garrison duty.
Maintenance personnel of 78 Fighter Wing RAAF servicing Vampire jet aircraft at their base in Malta. The Wing was in Malta for garrison duty.

Ground staff at work on the tarmac at the Malta base of 78 Fighter Wing RAAF. The Wing was stationed in Malta for garrison duty. In the background one of the Vampire jet aircraft is being refuelled.

Ground staff refuel Vampire fighter aircraft at the Malta airfield of 78 Fighter Wing RAAF before pilots take off on another sortie. The Wing was stationed in Malta for garrison duty.

Members of 78 Fighter Wing RAAF refuel a Vampire jet fighter aircraft at the RAAF station near Newcastle. The Wing was preparing to leave in July 1952 for two years of garrison duty in Malta.

Members of 78 Fighter Wing RAAF standing between two Vampire aircraft during a briefing on the tarmac at their airfield in Malta. The Wing was stationed in Malta for garrison duty between 1952 and 19

Leading Aircraftman Ron Catts of Wyong, NSW (left) points out a feature of a Goblin jet engine (from a Vampire aircraft) to Mr Bill Evans, an engineer from the De Havilland Aircraft Company, at the Ma
