ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945. - Indian Army engineers pause in their work to complete the airfield at Brown's West Island as a Consolidated Liberator B Mark VI of No. 356 Squadron RAF takes off on the Squadron's first operational sortie, and first operation undertaken from the Cocos islands. Seven Liberators were despatched to bomb two Japanese-held airstrips near Benkoelen, Sumatra. The engineers are using a caterpillar grader to level the ground next to the runway, on which the bitumenised strips stacked in the foreground will eventually be laid. , Royal Air Force, M
ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945. - Indian Army engineers pause in their work to complete the airfield at Brown's West Island as a Consolidated Liberator B Mark VI of No. 356 Squadron RAF takes off on the Squadron's first operational sortie, and first operation undertaken from the Cocos islands. Seven Liberators were despatched to bomb two Japanese-held airstrips near Benkoelen, Sumatra. The engineers are using a caterpillar grader to level the ground next to the runway, on which the bitumenised strips stacked in the foreground will eventually be laid. , Royal Air Force, Maintenance Unit, 356
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