Australian airmen working on one of the Sunderland aircraft shortly after the formation of No. 10 ...

Place Europe: United Kingdom, Wales, Pembroke Dock
Accession Number SUK14894
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Place made United Kingdom: Wales
Date made September 1939
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Australian airmen working on one of the Sunderland aircraft shortly after the formation of No. 10 (Sunderland) Squadron RAAF at RAF Station Pembroke Dock, which was to operate within the RAF Coastal Command. Identified, left to right: 03380 Wing Commander Alan Horace 'Stainless' Steele, flight fitter; 3760 Flight Sergeant Ronald Hector 'Cole' Castleton, engine fitter; 76069 Sergeant Gordon 'Chick' Parker, engine fitter.