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Photograph MALTA0761 Period 1950-1959Squadron Leader Doug Hurdich of Sale, Vic (left) discusses the flight plan with Chaplain Joseph P Whitt of Alabama (centre), who is about to go on his first flight in a Meteor jet aircraft. Flight Li

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Chaplain Joseph P Whitt of Alabama has his Mae West life jacket adjusted before going for a flight in a Meteor trainer aircraft at the Malta base of 78 Fighter Wing RAAF. Chaplain Whitt is with the US Air Force based at Tripoli. With him are Chaplain Jim Payne of Lismore, NSW (centre) and Squadron Leader Doug Hurdich of Sale, Vic.
Squadron Leader Doug Hurdich of Sale, Vic (left) discusses the flight plan with Chaplain Joseph P Whitt of Alabama (centre), who is about to go on his first flight in a Meteor jet aircraft. Flight Li

Squadron Leader Doug Hurdich of Sale, Vic (left) discusses the flight plan with Chaplain Joseph P Whitt of Alabama (centre), who is about to go on his first flight in a Meteor jet aircraft, and Flight

The Rev. Jim Payne of Lismore, NSW chaplain with 78 Fighter Wing RAAF in Malta, has his Mae West (life jacket) adjusted by his pilot, Flying Officer Lyall Klaffer, a former Korea pilot from Adelaide,

Squadron Leader Doug Hurdich of Sale, Vic, shows the controls of an RAAF Meteor aircraft to Chaplain Joseph P Whitt of the US Air Force. Chaplain Whitt, who is stationed at the US Air Force base in T

Portrait of Flight Lieutenant Jim Payne of Lismore, NSW, chaplain with 78 Fighter Wing RAAF in Malta.

Flight Lieutenant Jim Payne of Lismore, NSW, chaplain to 78 Fighter Wing RAAF in Malta, baptises Warren Stuart Andrews, watched by his parents, Squadron Leader Ken Andrews and his wife. The Wing was
