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MERSA MATRUH, EGYPT, 1943. PERSONNEL OF 451 SQUADRON RAAF SITTING IN THE OPERATIONS ROOM AT THE AIRFIELD. FROM LEFT ARE "REG" SUTTON, "COBBER" PAYNE, "TOMMY" JAMES, W ROOTS AND WALLY GALE; PROBABLY 406243 SQUADRON LEADER WALTER WILLIAM BERESFORD GALE (LOST ON OPERATIONS OVER ITALY ON 17 JULY 1944) (DONOR J.S. ARCHBOLD)
MERSA MATRUH AIRFIELD; EGYPT, 1943. GROUP OF PERSONNEL FROM 451 SQUADRON RAAF. FROM LEFT ARE RAY HUDSON; GEORGE PURDY; JIM SCHOFIELD; BILL BOLDMAN; MORGAN BARTLET; TED WOOD. (DONOR J.S. ARCHBOLD)
MERSA MATRUH, EGYPT, 1943. PERSONNEL OF 451 SQUADRON RAAF CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT ARE PHIL LONGBOTTOM, BILL GOLDMAN, GOLDBERG AND WARD. (DONOR J.S. ARCHBOLD)
Grottaglie, Italy. 1943. A group of RAAF airmen sitting around in an improvised operations room of No. 450 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF now operating in Italy. In the foreground, Squadron Leader J. Bartl
Malta. c. July 1943. Group portrait of members of No. 3 Squadron RAAF in front of their Curtiss P40 Kittyhawk aircraft. Left to right, back row (standing): Pilot Officer (PO) John Hooke; Flight Sergea
Kiriwina Island, Trobriand Islands, Papua. August 1943. Pilots of No. 79 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF spread coronus over the ground around the Operations/Standby Room on the airfield. Left to right: A386
Grottaglie, Italy. 1943. Informal portrait taken in the improvised Operations Room of a Squadron operating from an airfield in Southern Italy, during the visit by Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Tedder to the
