Andy’s thread with the photo of the parachute and the children has reminded me of another photo.
In Richard Collier’s “Eagle Day”, there is a photo of soldiers playing with an ammunition belt like a skipping rope, with a very, very bent Hurricane behind them, apparently taken within minutes of the pilot’s body being retrieved.
Gurgle gives me this old thread on RAF Commands, which looks to be the same aircraft:
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?4623-Hurricane-V7200
Can anyone throw any extra light on this – as Collier says in his caption, it’s a very strange photo!
Many thanks,
Adrian
(I’d scan and post it, but I’m damn sure that would be a breach of copyright! I’m also at work, and the book is at home)
By: adrian_gray - 11th February 2014 at 15:36
Perhaps, Andy – mordant humour is a universal in warfare and if the soldiers depicted had been in France they’d probably seen more death and destruction than most of us will do in a lifetime.
Adrian
By: Arabella-Cox - 11th February 2014 at 12:43
Yes, I have that photograph.
Strange photo, but not untypical of the times perhaps?
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February 11, 2014 at 12:38 pm