BRITISH AIR FORCE SERVICE STATION. Royal Air Force employs ten men on the ground staff for every one in the air, and the maintenance, checking-over, tuning-up of the aircraft goes on night and day. This picture is of R.A.. ground personnel busy with light repairs on a bomber.
ANSWER TO INVASION THREATS. Part of Britain’s defences are these giant 12-inch howitzers on, railway mountings. Guncrews are seen bringing up the shells, great projectiles weighing over one-third of a ton.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 44, 2 December 1941, Page 8
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79BRITISH AIR FORCE SERVICE STATION. Royal Air Force employs ten men on the ground staff for every one in the air, and the maintenance, checking-over, tuning-up of the aircraft goes on night and day. This picture is of R.A.. ground personnel busy with light repairs on a bomber. ANSWER TO INVASION THREATS. Part of Britain’s defences are these giant 12-inch howitzers on, railway mountings. Guncrews are seen bringing up the shells, great projectiles weighing over one-third of a ton. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 44, 2 December 1941, Page 8
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