025154 Accession Number: 025154

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WESTERN DESERT, EGYPT. 1942-10-11. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR LESLIE MORSHEAD, GENERAL-OFFICER-COMMANDING A.I.F. (M.E.), TALKING TO MEN OF THE 9TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISIONAL SALVAGE UNIT WHO ARE RECOVERING A GERMAN MESSERSCMITT BF109 PLANE, (SEEN IN BACKGROUND) WHICH HAD MADE A CRASH LANDING AFTER AN ENCOUNTER WITH TWO SPITFIRE FIGHTER PLANES. GENERAL MORSHEAD WAS PASSING AND LEFT HIS CAR TO INSPECT THE PLANE AND CHAT TO THE MAN.

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025154
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Colour: Black & white
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1
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