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Major Louis T. Houck of 365th FG (Hell Hawks) / 387 FS, sits on the wing of his P-47D-15-RE "The Screamin' Weamie", adorning his trademark horned flight cap. Houck is likely joined by his ground crew, and two other unidentified pilots, on the ground at RAF Gosfield in early 1944.
ALT Dan Steele Colour / Charlie Johnson Collection - Aircraft colour profile by Don Barnes
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Cpt Arnold Fraser-Campbell MC, 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. One of three brothers from a wealthy Scots-American family from New York who served in the British Army during the FWW. Arnold was wounded three times and lost his arm in action.
© IWM HU 122376
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Sgt. Allen Desailles Glover, a gunner with the 753BS, 458BG, completed six missions aboard the B-24 Liberator 'Big-Time Operator' (41-29288) before his forced retirement. Glover had admitted to his crew that he was only 16 years old, having lied about his age to enlist.
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Sub-Lieutenant Pearson, RNVR, a Fleet Air Arm pilot, aboard HMS Victorious in September 1942, as the ship conducts sea trials following a minor refit in preparation for Operation Torch.
ALT đź“· IWM (A 12567)
Sub-Lieutenant Pearson, RNVR, a Fleet Air Arm pilot, aboard HMS Victorious in September 1942, as the ship conducts sea trials following a minor refit in preparation for Operation Torch.
ALT đź“· IWM (A 12567)
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Wing Commander Michael Nicholson Crossley DSO, OBE, DFC standing in front of a Hawker Typhoon, RAF Gravesend, Kent. He led No. 32 Squadron during the Battle of Britain.
Colour by @colour_dan
Original photo: IWM
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An RAF Flight Lieutenant takes a cigarette break at dusk, somewhere in the Middle East during the Spring of 1942.
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Original photo: © IWM CBM 1370
Honoured to have been able to contribute to this fantastic project in some way. Congratulations, Shaun!
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Four years in the writing. A celebration of the wartime lives, loves, & deaths of forty young men, compiled from their letters to & from their boarding housemaster, as well as their diaries, memoirs, & family archives. It has been humbling & an honour to tell their stories.
Air vice-marshal William Dickson, Air Officer Commanding the Desert Air Force, sitting in the cockpit of his personal Supermarine Spitfire LF Mark VIII, JF814 "WFD", at a landing ground in northern Italy, ca. 1944.
ALT Dan Steele Colour / Abbott, L H (Flying Officer) / © IWM CNA 3174
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Love this colourised old photo from @colour_dan. Do you know the story of the "Idle Women" and their role during WWII? canalrivertrust.org.uk/thing…
Miss Daphne March holds onto a rope as she stands at the tiller on board the Narrowboat 'Heather Bell', keeping an important economic lifeline open during the Second World War.
ALT Dan Steele / Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer / © IWM D 7653
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Miss Daphne March holds onto a rope as she stands at the tiller on board the Narrowboat 'Heather Bell', keeping an important economic lifeline open during the Second World War.
ALT Dan Steele / Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer / © IWM D 7653
Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer / © @I_W_M D 7653
ALT WOMEN RUN A BOAT: LIFE ON BOARD THE CANAL BARGE 'HEATHER BELL', 1942: Miss March hold onto a rope as she stands at the tiller on board the 'HEATHER BELL'.
Leading Aircraftman L. Doyle and Cpl R. Wyer of No. 213 Sqn, RAF prepare to fit a fuel drop tank onto a North American Mustang Mk III (AK-E) before a mission over Yugoslavia. Biferno, Italy 14th August 1944.
ALT Dan Steele Colour / © IWM FRE 14857
