RAF servicemen conduncting daily routine maintenance on Spitfire Mk VC.
Details:
Title
RAF servicemen conduncting daily routine maintenance on Spitfire Mk VC.,
Photo number
PCA0063/0033,
Collection
Ernest Weatherhead Collection,
PictureNT,
PictureNT,
Date
1943,
Location
Nightcliff,
Description
Handwriting on back of photo: Military History 52821. Most likely RAF maintenance men doing a Daily Inspection for the initialling in service manual E/E.77 that the plane is airworthy for the next 24 hours. Squiggles at bottom of picture are shadow from camouflage netting above plane in dispersal bay, RAAF Base Darwin.,
Notes
Supplied by Millitary History Section (S.D.9),
Language
en,
Subject
Nightcliff Camp, Darwin 1943,
Royal Air Force RAF,
Fighter Squadron 54,