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Post by mickywest on Apr 27, 2018 19:38:50 GMT
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Post by mickywest on May 1, 2018 11:13:45 GMT
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Post by mickywest on May 2, 2018 18:55:19 GMT
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Post by mickywest on May 2, 2018 21:55:47 GMT
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Post by Stig Jarlevik on May 3, 2018 8:11:14 GMT
Mick
I am hesitant about this being in Italy. Isn't that a Fortress in the background, and since we are talking late 1945 here what was it in such a case doing there?
Cheers Stig
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Post by mickywest on May 3, 2018 11:53:14 GMT
Think it's a Baltimore, Stig....photo should open up to a larger size...the landscape looks a bit northern European rather than Mediterranean so The Skymaster nose code is HA but I don't have a tie-up with serials for the RAF Skymasters M West 17763
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Post by Stig Jarlevik on May 3, 2018 12:55:34 GMT
Well Mick Can't get the photo to open up at all.... Baltimore? You could be quite correct there Mick. Checking the size of the aircraft certainly doesn't seem to fit a Fortress.... If Baltimore is correct somewhere in Italy sounds very plausible indeed. Cheers Stig 09564 (taking two steps back.... )
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Post by mickywest on May 3, 2018 14:33:58 GMT
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Post by Stig Jarlevik on May 3, 2018 14:42:37 GMT
Thanks Mick
As soon as you provided the correct link, it worked. I would say North Africa is out of the question, at least from what I have seen from other photos. No such tree line anywhere as I can recall.
Cheers Stig
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Post by mickywest on May 3, 2018 23:17:02 GMT
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Post by mickywest on May 5, 2018 11:07:42 GMT
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Post by mickywest on May 5, 2018 11:58:20 GMT
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Post by mickywest on May 18, 2018 22:52:45 GMT
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Post by geoffreynegus on May 19, 2018 14:24:46 GMT
I suspect that the taxying C-54 with the Dakotas in the background might be - wait for it - at Northolt.
I suggest that the photographer had his back to the hangars on the northside and is looking roughly SW. There is a slope down from the hangars down to the main runway, as in this photo, We know the RAF operated the Skymaster on VIP flights (hence the presence of a Life photographer) from here, as well as numerous Dakotas, which were commonly parked nose towards the hangars.
I agree, the trees don't look Italian.
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Post by mickywest on May 19, 2018 14:51:42 GMT
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