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Photograph MALTA0222 Period 1950-1959Idris. Corporal Gordon Linklater of Tully, Qld, a photographer with 78 Fighter Wing RAAF, has a drink in a beer garden with an RAF friend in the Libyan town that was formerly named Castel Benito (aft

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Corporal (Cpl) Gordon Linklater of Tully, Qld buys a basket from a street merchant in the Libyan capital. Cpl Linklater was a photographer with 78 Fighter Wing RAAF, which was taking part in an armament camp at the nearby RAF base, Idris.
Idris. Corporal Gordon Linklater of Tully, Qld, a photographer with 78 Fighter Wing RAAF, has a drink in a beer garden with an RAF friend in the Libyan town that was formerly named Castel Benito (aft

Idris. Corporal (Cpl) Gordon Linklater of Tully, Qld, services the camera gun in the nose of a 73 Squadron (RAF) Vampire aircraft. Cpl Linklater was a photographer with 78 Fighter Wing RAAF, which w

View of Roman ruins at a an ancient ruined city in Libya. Members of 78 Fighter Wing RAAF visited the site while taking part in an armament camp at Idris, the RAF base near Tripoli.

Four members of 78 Fighter Wing RAAF enjoying some time off in the capital city of Libya. While stationed in Malta between 1952 and 1954, the Wing operated from various bases around the Mediterranean

Three members of 78 Fighter Wing RAAF take a Sunday morning walk near Ta'Kali, the RAF station where the Wing is based in Malta. In the background is the ancient fortress city of Mdina, which dates f

Strolling near Ta'Kali, their base in Malta, two members of 78 Fighter Wing RAAF watch a Maltese farmer using a donkey to plough his small field. In the background is the ancient town of Mdina, which
