Wearing tin helmets, ground staff of the detachment from 78 Fighter Wing RAAF wait in a forest ...

Accession Number MALTA0764
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original negative 3x4" safety base
Maker Sebastian, Jeffrey Graham (Jerry)
Place made Germany: Wahn
Date made 25-31 July 1953
Conflict Period 1950-1959
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Wearing tin helmets, ground staff of the detachment from 78 Fighter Wing RAAF wait in a forest near Cologne, West Germany to be taken to the airstrip during the NATO exercise Operation Coronet. This exercise, the largest in Western Europe since the Second World War, involved real battle conditions.

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