Richmond Air Base - 1940
Train travel to Orontes - 1940
Embarking Orontes - 1940
Orontes
Squadron trans-shipped at Bombay to Dilwarra
Bath day on board
Disembark at Port Tewfik, Egypt, 23 August 1940
First camp at Ismalia, Egypt
Then onto the real war
For better or for worse
Catch it and pluck it
Start digging in
More like home
A kero-tin home in the desert
This is a pranged JU88 at Belandah
Jones, Stevens, ? and Bray
Preparations to fly
Engine work-over
Bombing-up
Armaments loaded
Scramble
Observation and point marker
Who needs goggles?
Ground staff check-out
Taxiing out with a lookout on the wing
Tail-up
... and away
Ground Attack
Squadron up
Another take-off ... with a 250lb bmb
Safe and ...
... ready to celebrate victories
Picking up supplies in town
Always time for a nap in the shade
Airmen's mess - desert style
Then a wash-up and ...
... ready for a bit of leave ...
... to Alexandria - always popular for a leave-pass
Waiting for the next sortie; outside or ...
... in the crew tent-room ("Stinky" is in left corner)
Me109G captured by 3 Squadron
The anti-fly squad making fly-traps
The captured Italian mobile workshop
... open and ready for action
PSP (Pierced Steel Planking) landing ground
A Mustang being re-fuelled
A bomb-trailer heading for an aircraft bomb-loading area
A (luckily dud) message dropped by the enemy
Time out in Rosh Pinna, Israel
Bath time
Kittyhawk on fire ... still burning
Mustangs ready for action
Prop change. (Bill Usher on top holding the blade.)
Swiss guards, Vatican, Rome ...
The Three Padres of the Desert Air Force
Sad moments
Inside the office
Happy chappies near the Erupting Mt. Vesuvius
C'mon fellers - hurry up
Only a few more to go
Malta Men
Ops planning at Taranto
Anyone seen Slim Moore?
