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Random Cool Photo Thread

FlakMagnet

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“Australian Beaufighter Mk.21 (A8-328) finished its RAAF career as a target tug in 1956. Disposed, it ended up as an outdoors attraction at the playground of the Lord Mayor of Melbourne’s Children’s Camp in Portsea, Victoria until 1962. By then a sad badly deteriorated derelict, A8-328 was saved by the Australian Aircraft Restoration Group and gorgeously restored. It now resides at the Australian National Aviation Museum, Moorabbin Airport, Victoria.”

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Micawber

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Original wartime caption: When an American aircraft crashed on an R.A.F. Fighter Command airfield recently, a 21 year old W.A.A.F. Transport Drive, Leading Aircaftwoman Phyllis Day of 43 Cody Close, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex, jumped into a Jeep and raced through dense fog across the airfield to the scene. Although the aircraft was blazing fiercely, live ammunition was exploding and bombs in the fire were likely to go off at any minute, she directed rescue operations until a crash tender and ambulance arrived. Leading Aircraftwoman Day is one of several W.A.A.F. drivers at a Fighter Command airfield on the South Coast, who with jeeps, guide aircraft to a parking place. Picture (issued 1945) shows - Leading Aircraftwoman Phyllis Day driving a jeep to guide a bomber which had made an emergency landing on a Fighter Command airfield. 15th April 1945.

IWM Caption and Photo

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