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F/L Charles Ryle Gibbs

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W/C Richard Webb

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Sgt Robert Edmund Anderson

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F/L Frantisek Kruta

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W/O Eric Holdgate Baker

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F/Sgt James Samuel Hillman

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F/O James Wray Kirk

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Sgt Gerald Gooch

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TE434

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TE435

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TE436

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TE444

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* recent comments & questions

Sgt. E.A.Lord

Crashed near Fiorana of Argenta flown by Sgt. E.A. Lord, 111° Sqn RAF. Sgt. Lord baled out and took place safely in friendly lines. Histo ...

on: aircraft, 2019-08-18 ... details

JF716 photo

Very cool. I love doing that sort of analysis with some of the other photos I’ve collected of the unit (though aviation is well outside my ...

on: aircraft, 2019-08-05 ... details

Marcianise Airfield

Hi Lowell, A little more information, hope it's of interest. I've downloaded 92 Squadron's Operational Record Books Jan-Apr 1944 (just ...

on: aircraft, 2019-08-05 ... details

Wrong unit assignement in record

EE624 was assigned to 504 Squadron in 1942, not 501 Squadron ...

on: aircraft, 2019-08-04 ... details

Based on the aircraft's history, the photograph was presumably taken somewhere in or near Algeria in 1943; closest airfield to the 32nd Stat ...

on: aircraft, 2019-07-30 ... details

USS WASP Hangar Deck.

This photo shows BR136 just prior to launching from USS WASP during Operation Bowery on the 9th May, 1942. The moment it touched down in Mal ...

on: aircraft, 2019-07-24 ... details

Club Run

This picture shows the aircraft being loaded onto USS WASP CV-7 in either April or May, 1942. One of 47 aircraft loaded on board and deliver ...

on: aircraft, 2019-07-24 ... details

History from Imperial War Museum Duxford

Spitfire NH523 was a MK IX aircraft built at Castle Bromwich in early 1944. It first entered RAF service with the 33rd Maintenance Unit on t ...

on: aircraft, 2019-06-28 ... details