Informal group portrait of members of 622 Squadron RAF returning from Essen after a bombing raid. ...

Accession Number P03363.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Associated Press
Place made United Kingdom: England, Suffolk, Mildenhall
Date made 26 October 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal group portrait of members of 622 Squadron RAF returning from Essen after a bombing raid. Identified are: back row, left to right: unidentified flight engineer (sixth from left, immediately beside the bus); unidentified mid-upper gunner (eighth from left, face partially obscured); unidentified bomb aimer (tenth from left); Flt Sgt 417704 Eoin Francis RAAF, pilot (standing back right) later KIA 6 January 1945. Middle row: Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) T Stott RAF (second from left smoking); Flt Sgt Kelly, wireless operator (third from left, smoking and wearing a mae west).

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