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Over Grand Harbour Painting by Anthony Saunders |
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Over Grand Harbour Painting by Anthony Saunders |
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1. Squadron's 85th Birthday at Nelson Bay, 18- 20 September 2001
2. Arthur Pardey's mementoes ... the Nazi units on this flag have been identified
4. Adrian Hellwig has sent in photos from WW1's 2A/C Harold Edwards' collection. They include some 3 Squadron's airfield locations during 1917-18.
7. Some of the Squadron's WWI aircraft, armaments and vehicles
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Oxford (Queens) 1917 |
Training class - Oxford |
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South Carlton 1917 |
Machine-gun training |
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Ground wireless 1917 |
Transports |
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Training prang |
Bailleul -1917 |
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Ready for take-off - RE8 |
Sandy & Hughes's RE8 |
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Photograph of the Red Baron after death |
3 Squadron bury the Red Baron - 1918 |
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WORLD |
WAR ll |
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Richmond - 1940 |
Train travel to Orontes - 1940 |
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Embarking Orontes - 1940 |
Orontes (note: this isn't the 1940 sailing) |
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Squadron trans-shipped at Bombay to Dilwarra |
Bath day on board |
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Disembark at Port Tewfik, Egypt, 23 August 1940 |
First camp at Ismalia, Egypt |
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Then onto the real war |
For better or for worse |
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Catch it and pluck it |
Start digging in |
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More like home |
A kero-tin home in the desert |
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Preparations to fly |
Engine work-over |
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Bombing-up |
Armaments loaded |
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Scramble |
Observation and point marker |
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Who needs goggles? |
Ground staff check-out |
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Taxiing out with a lookout on the wing |
Tail-up |
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... and away |
Operation underway |
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Squadron up |
Another take-off ... with a 250lb bmb |
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Safe and ... |
... ready to celebrate victories |
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Picking up supplies in town |
Always time for a nap in the shade |
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Airmen's mess - desert style |
Then a wash-up and ... |
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... ready for a bit of leave ... |
... to Alexandria - always popular for a leave-pass |
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Waiting for the next sortie; outside or ... |
... in the crew tent-room ("Stinky" is in left corner) |
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Me109G captured by 3 Squadron |
The anti-fly squad making fly-traps |
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The captured Italian mobile workshop |
... open and ready for action |
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Mesh landing ground |
A Mustang being re-fuelled |
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A bomb-trailer heading for an aircraft bomb-loading area |
The yellow marker points to one of "the whistlers" removed from unexploded German bombs and fitted to the wings of our own aircraft to create a terrifying whistle when dive-bombing ... it worked! |
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A (luckily dud) message dropped by the enemy |
Time out in Rosh Pinna, Israel |
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Kittyhawk on fire |
... still burning |
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Mustangs ready for action |
Prop change |
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JU52 transport shot down over Crete - 1941 |
Bath time |
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The time for a change ... |
The Three Padres of the Desert Air Force |
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Sad moments |
Inside the office |
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Happy chappies |
C'mon fellers - hurry up |
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Only a few more to go |
Malta Men |
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Ops planning at Taranto |
Anyone seen Slim Moore? |
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Sid Coates (click here to view more of Sid's album) |
Sid Coates and his mates |
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The Coates family's Wall of Honour to Sid |
Desert life in the raw |
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Designed in 1943 by Norm French ("Frenchie"), this emblem has become the Squadron's Desert Air Force badge of honour ... the red symbolising the blood shed ... the yellow, the sands of the desert ... and the cross and shield representing the crusade which the Squadron undertook as a fighter-bomber unit... |
... before the new emblem was adopted |
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Apparently "Soapy" and "Gasher" ?? |
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Jones, Stevens, ? and Bray |
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This is a pranged JU88 at Belandah |
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Who, where, when? |
My name is Chris Grigg. I am the grandson of Ivan Hansen, an airframe fitter who was with 3 squadron in North Africa during World War 2. I came across your website when I was reading the latest issue of Flightpath magazine and duly looked it up. Many of the photos you have remind me of the stories he still tells about his time there (especially the practice of putting a lookout on the wing while taxiing!). The reason I am writing is to say that I have in my possession a series of digitized photographs (scanned from the originals) that he took whilst in North Africa and I was wondering if you would be interested in showing some of these on your web pages. I am missing most of the captions from them so many of the people and places in them I can't name, but they are very interesting nonetheless. (e-m: candbgrigg@dodo.com.au )
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