I’m on a roll finding pictures in Lifes archive, so here is a bunch from Ireland.
New pilots training at Baldonnel airport – 1941.
A man hanging up practice bombs in the bomb ports of an Anson machine.
An Irish Air Force guner heading toward his machine – 1941.
Irish Air Force recruit who has bee training for 5 weeks.
Irish Air Force recruits receiving instruction on 250 lb. bomb mechanism – 1941.
An Irish Air Force observer going out to his machine – 1941.
Irish Air Force recruit being trained in a two-seater Birmingham trainer plane – 1941.
By: Malcolm McKay - 26th February 2009 at 22:25
I was about to caption the bomb instruction image, but my girlfriend is Irish and i would get into trouble…….
You mean
“Watch carefully Oi’m only going to do this the once”
😀
By: pagen01 - 26th February 2009 at 17:41
Excellent shots again, thanks for sharing.
By: Mondariz - 26th February 2009 at 17:41
I was about to caption the bomb instruction image, but my girlfriend is Irish and i would get into trouble…….
They call it a Birmingham on the other picture as well:
“A view showing a Birmingham two-seater training plane at the Baldonnel airport.”
By: John Aeroclub - 26th February 2009 at 17:36
Could be some good captions for that lot. Never knew magisters were made in Birmingham 🙂
John
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