I was given these many years ago. They are card photos, as in they are printed on thick card. Were they used as promotional material, or just images taken by an official photographer for archive purposes.
Arthur Harris appears in one of them, along with the King dishing out gongs, but what of the crews, any recognisable personalities amongst them?.
By: pimpernel - 8th January 2007 at 22:37
They’re Heinkels… no they’er Messerschmitt’s. Well you know the rest!!!!:diablo:
I have some of my late fathers photos that are on heavy card when he was in the RAF. Mine seem to be the same as a normal postcard but much thicker.
Could this have been an optional way of mounting photos during the war?
Brian.
By: Denis - 8th January 2007 at 21:58
No problem mate:p
By: low'n'slow - 8th January 2007 at 21:03
Sorry Denis, didn’t mean to distract from the business in hand. 😮
By: Denis - 8th January 2007 at 20:06
Number 4 is very familiar to me. It shows W/O Mason and his crew from 90 (Stirling) Squadron at Wratting Common, debriefing after a Berlin raid in 1943.
I take it that that particular image is well known then Steve, or is it the crew that is recognisable to you?.
If nothing else, the pictures have provided fun for some 🙂
By: low'n'slow - 8th January 2007 at 10:14
Fred’s lack of underarm deodorant was beginning to cause his crew some concern 😮
By the way, isn’t that TT second from the right??
By: Steve Bond - 8th January 2007 at 08:59
Number 4 is very familiar to me. It shows W/O Mason and his crew from 90 (Stirling) Squadron at Wratting Common, debriefing after a Berlin raid in 1943.
By: QldSpitty - 8th January 2007 at 00:52
Big night out.
…..After a big night down at the local the Squadron was quite obliviouse of the dogfight that raged behind them until Flight Seargent Blogs caught a glancing blow by 20mm shell…..:rolleyes:
By: spade grip - 7th January 2007 at 23:27
Oi! you down there, why have you got a pointy arm sticking out of your head?
By: Moggy C - 7th January 2007 at 18:58
Ooow look! An Eagle!
(You need to have seen the canned salmon ad to really appreciate that one.)
Moggy
By: low'n'slow - 7th January 2007 at 18:29
Can’t add anything on the provenance, but as its such a ruddy awful wet evening, what about a caption competition.
I’ll start with this one.
‘E gut us into this ruddy sh1t, ‘E can get us out of it!
😀
By: Andy in Beds - 7th January 2007 at 17:35
It looks like Leigh-Mallory standing next to HM The Queen in the third picture.
A.
By: LesB - 7th January 2007 at 16:38
Being printed on card as you say (or maybe mounted on card), I consider these photos would have been meant to be pinned up on a display board at some exhibition or presentation or the like – not necessarily public. Also, there looks to be pinholes in he corners of some of them.
.
By: Kernowglyn - 7th January 2007 at 16:28
Clearly the work of official photographers. The purpose may be to do with public relations in that the photographs could be given to the press, but some would likely be for the unit, station, or command archives.
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January 7, 2007 at 3:42 pm