CREWS OF THE FIRST BRITISH AIRCRAFT TO FLY OVER JAPAN. JULY 1945, IN THE BRITISH ESCORT CARRIER HMS IMPLACABLE. ON 17 JULY 1945 FAIREY FIREFLY FIGHTERS OF 1771 SQUADRON OPERATING FROM IMPLACABLE BECAME THE FIRST AIRCRAFT OF THE FLEET AIR ARM TO FLY OVER JAPAN. - The air and maintenance crews of the Firefly fighters of 1771 Naval Air Squadron. Left to right: two back rows: R White; C Carpenter; R Tennant; F Mattock; C Castle; R Blair; C Dean; W Clay; J Miller; D Allum; R Waring; T Crompton; D Lant; E Jones; H Ferguson; N Eldred; J Norris; J Griffiths; B Bailey; R Hammond; L Cutter; F Wheatcroft
CREWS OF THE FIRST BRITISH AIRCRAFT TO FLY OVER JAPAN. JULY 1945, IN THE BRITISH ESCORT CARRIER HMS IMPLACABLE. ON 17 JULY 1945 FAIREY FIREFLY FIGHTERS OF 1771 SQUADRON OPERATING FROM IMPLACABLE BECAME THE FIRST AIRCRAFT OF THE FLEET AIR ARM TO FLY OVER JAPAN. - The air and maintenance crews of the Firefly fighters of 1771 Naval Air Squadron. Left to right: two back rows: R White; C Carpenter; R Tennant; F Mattock; C Castle; R Blair; C Dean; W Clay; J Miller; D Allum; R Waring; T Crompton; D Lant; E Jones; H Ferguson; N Eldred; J Norris; J Griffiths; B Bailey; R Hammond; L Cutter; F Wheatcroft; G Reading; R Hall; A Bates. Middle row: Sub Lieut L Straughton; Lieut P Westlake; Lieut R W Rurrel; Lieut Cdr W R Macwhirter; Lieut M A Catterall; Lieut K C Corrin; Sub Lieut S M Edmundson. Front row: Lieut R H Greenway; Sub Lieut P C Gullen; Sub Lieut A H Knyaston; Sub Lieut R G West; Sub Lieut D R Manley; and Sub Lieut G T K Reekie. ,
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