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Photograph JK0999 Period 1950-1959IWAKUNI, JAPAN, 1954-06-23. RAAF FITTERS OF NO. 491 MAINTENANCE SQUADRON WORK ON THE ENGINE OF ONE OF NO 77 SQUADRON'S METEOR AIRCRAFT.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Turbine blades are lowered into position on one of No. 77 Squadron's Meteor aircraft by 5395 Corporal Brian Herbert Morley and Leading Aircraftman Ken Brierley, engine fitters of No. 491 Maintenance Squadron at the RAAF base in southern Japan.
IWAKUNI, JAPAN, 1954-06-23. RAAF FITTERS OF NO. 491 MAINTENANCE SQUADRON WORK ON THE ENGINE OF ONE OF NO 77 SQUADRON'S METEOR AIRCRAFT.

IWAKUNI, JAPAN, 1954-06-23. RAAF FITTERS OF NO. 491 MAINTENANCE SQUADRON WORK ON THE ENGINE OF ONE OF NO 77 SQUADRON'S METEOR AIRCRAFT.

IWAKUNI, JAPAN. 1952. IN THE STRIPPED COCKPIT OF AN RAAF METEOR JET AT NO.491 MAINTENANCE SQUADRON'S WORKSHOPS IN SOUTHERN JAPAN, CORPORAL DOUG BATHERSBY WORKS ON THE INSTRUMENTS.

IWAKUNI, JAPAN. 1952. RAAF ARMOURERS REPLACE A 20 MM CANNON IN ONE OF NO. 77 SQUADRON'S METEOR AIRCRAFT DURING ROUTINE MAINTENANCE AT IWAKUNI: LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN DAVID HADLEY (LEFT) AND CORPORAL "MAC

IWAKUNI, JAPAN. 1952. LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN NORM ELLIS, RAAF, TURNS A PULLEY ON ONE OF 491 MAINTENANCE SQUADRON'S LATHES.

LIKE ENGINE FITTERS KEEP THEIR AIRCRAFT ENGINES IN GOOD REPAIR, SO DO THE MEDICS OF NO. 77 SQUADRON RAAF KEEP THE SQUADRON'S PERSONNEL IN A1 CONDITION. SHOWN HERE ON THE SQUADRON'S DAILY SICK PARADE A
