Fiat G.50 - Pilots and ground-crew of the 352nd Squadron having a rest. Cirenaica, August 1941
Fiat G.50 - Pilots and ground-crew of the 352nd Squadron having a rest. Cirenaica, August 1941
A crew from No. 274 Squadron RAF repairs a Hawker Hurricane Mk I at LG 10-Gerawala, Libya, during the defense of Tobruk. 1941
Oh I ❤️ flight attendants. And pilots. And plane mechanics. And ground crew…😉
Women serve tea to the crew of a Light Tank Mk VI of 'C' Squadron, 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps, at Bessbrook in Armagh, Northern Ireland, 25 March 1941.
Sweden can get Ukrainian Pilots and Ground Crew trained, and get those aircraft into Ukraine within a month, two months tops. As they'd treat Ukrainian Pilots as just learning a new aircraft. Instead of treating them as brand new Pilots like the other programs.
Fighter pilot Oiva Tuominen (Oiva Emil Kalervo Tuominen, 1908-1976) from the 1st flight of the 26th squadron of the Finnish Air Force (1/LeLv 26) smokes, leaning on the wing of his Italian-made Fiat G.50 fighter.
#Finland, via: i.redd.it/s127w9psmsfc...
Frieren and the crew having some rest and relaxation doodle
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Doesn’t matter. It’s all good.
I started with the X-Wing series. It follows Wedge Antilles and the rest of Rogue Squadron and Wraith Squadron (a rag tag misfit bunch of pilots) on a 9 book adventure. It takes place ABY and *mentions* Luke Skywalker maybe twice? Otherwise all new characters
Ground crew servicing an Avro Lancaster of No 300 Polish Bomber Squadron RAF at Faldingworth, Lincolnshire. 24 April 1944
“Officers and men of 832 Squadron descending in the lift after having the Squadron photograph taken.”
(www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...)
An Italian fighter Fiat CR.42 loaded, after the disassembly, perhaps after the its salvage, onto a Fiat 632 truck of the Regia Aeronautica’s 634th SRAM, 1941.
Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya pilots in front of a PC-7U of the EVA (Advanced Flight Squadron) where young pilots hone their skills before transferring to operational units.
Reg Miles F E, Doug Vaughan R G, John Bridgeman B A, Jim Tease Pilot, Owen Yack MUG, Don Nicklen Nav, Harold Baker WOP, LAC H Jones Ground Crew, LAC C A Milne Ground Crew LAC J H Parker Ground Crew, LAC J A Smith Ground Crew, Sgt B Berry Ground Crew Chief on Halifax 'Beryle'. #History
15th March 1941: Operation SAVANNAH. 5 Free French paratroopers were dropped near Vannes-Meucon airfield. They were to ambush a bus which transported pilots of Kampfgruppe 100, the Luftwaffe’s pathfinder squadron, but the bus was no longer in use and the mission was aborted.