Suez canal
Powel erk, Billy Herbert, ?, 1942
Red Conner, ?,?,
Squadron on the move
Squadron scramble
Tony Ward, RAF, OC RAF 73 sqdn, 1941. Bomb was in the squadron for a few days. Tony Ward was later KIA.
Hurricane taking off
Ju 88, Bf-109
L to R: Ginger Baker, Colin Sinclair, Barry Haynes, Ernie (Pops) Jory, George O'Farrell, Harry Gaynor, Les Marshall
Captured Bf-109 in Derna
Captured Bf-109 Jan 1942
Captured and repaired Bf 109 being test flown by Bennie Osler Jan 1942.
Jan Vis Salmon
Crashed aircraft of Bill Rabie El Gamil April 1942. Bottom picture left: Captain Metelerkamp, later to become 1 sqdn OC and later KIA.
Tiger moth crashed by Eddie Thrash, Port Said
Cairo
Seccombe in his Hurricane: Note 4 x swastika kill marks painted
Bomb calls this man the "duck egg green merchant"
Pilots and ground staff chat after a fight.
Lysander recce plane.
Roger Simmonds(RAF seconded) and Johnny Johnson (air defence officer)
Harry Gaynor's Hurricane iic with 20mm canon. Note only 1 canon on each side
Hurricane iic with 20mm canon. Note only 1 canon on each side.
Bomb's Hurricane
Scramble buzzer device at the ops tent. This sound was disliked by the pilots and they disabled it.
Scramble
Ray Connell's A/C being hit.
Bomb's plane being badly hit but flown by Jan Vis Salmon