This is the right hand image of a two part panorama of P-51D aircraft of 77 Squadron RAAF all ...

Accession Number P03119.017
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Japan: Iwakuni
Date made 7 April 1951
Conflict Korea, 1950-1953
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

This is the right hand image of a two part panorama of P-51D aircraft of 77 Squadron RAAF all parked in several rows on the tarmac in front of the maintenance hangar at Iwakuni. This photograph marked their return from nine months of intensive operations in Korea. After a short break, their pilots converted to Gloster Meteor Mk 8 jet fighters marking the end of piston-engined fighter aircraft in the RAAF. The left hand image is P03119.016. See P03119.033 for the combined image.