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RAF LANGHAM, ENGLAND, 1944-09. THE CREW OF A BEAUFIGHTER OF NO. 455 SQUADRON RAAF STANDING IN FRONT OF THEIR AIRCRAFT. LEFT TO RIGHT: NO. 427589 FLYING OFFICER KEN DEMPSEY, NAVIGATOR W, NO. 422737 FLYING OFFICER WILLIAM M. STANLEY, PILOT. SEVERAL DAYS AFTER THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN, FLYING OFFICER STANLEY CRASH LANDED AND WAS PULLED CLEAR OF THE BURNING AIRCRAFT BY WING COMMANDER JACK DAVENPORT WHO WAS AWARDED THE GEORGE MEDAL FOR HIS ACTION. SEE ALSO P793/03. (DONOR: MISS E. STANLEY)
Informal portrait of 427589 Flying Officer (FO) Keith Alexander Dempsey from North Brighton, Victoria, navigator (later Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt)) [on left] and 422737 FO William Mitchell Stanley fro
NORFOLK, ENGLAND. 1944-09-03. PORTRAIT OF 427582 FLYING OFFICER K. A. DEMPSEY, NORTH BRIGHTON, VIC, A NAVIGATOR WITH BEAUFIGHTER NO. 455 SQUADRON RAAF IN COASTAL COMMAND AT RAF STATION LANGHAM.
SYDNEY, NSW, C 1945. TWO MEMBERS OF THE RAAF ON THEIR RETURN TO AUSTRALIA AFTER WAR SERVICE IN UK, PICTURED WITH A FRIEND. THEY ARE: LEFT, WARRANT OFFICER JOHN BURROWS (NAVIGATOR) AND RIGHT, FLIGHT LI
NORFOLK, ENGLAND. 1944-07-26. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER DURING A VISIT TO THE SQUADRON WITH THE COMMANDING OFFICER 403403 WING COMMANDER J. N. DAVENPORT DSO DFC, SYDNEY, NSW, OF NO. 45
Portrait of 415797 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) (later Flying Officer) Allan William Ibbotson, of Kalgoorlie, WA, a navigator with No 455 (Beaufighter) Squadron, RAAF, Coastal Command, bases at RAF Stati
NORFOLK, ENGLAND. C. 1944-07. PORTRAIT OF 419427 FLYING OFFICER F. MACINTYRE, NORTH KEW, VIC, A NAVIGATOR OF NO. 455 (BEAUFIGHTER) SQUADRON RAAF WITH COASTAL COMMAND, AT RAF STATION LANGHAM.
