Image from the Evan Dall Mackie personal collection.
No. 122 Wing squadron commanders with their Wing Commander officer at RAF Station Volkel, Holland.
L-R: Squadron Leader ED Mackie (No. 80 Squadron), Squadron Leader KF Thiele DSO DFC & bar (No. 3 Squadron), Group Captain PG Jameson (No. 122 Wing), Squadron Leader DE Umbers (No. 486 Squadron).
Published in Mackie's biography 'Spitfire Leader' by Max Avery and Christopher Shores.
Image from the Evan Dall Mackie personal collection.
Informal group of No. 122 Wing personnel in front of a railway wagon(?) at RAF Station Volkel, Holland.
L-R: Squadron Leader ED Mackie (No. 80 Squadron), Squadron Leader KF Thiele DSO DFC & bar (No. 3 Squadron), unknown, Group Captain PG Jameson (No. 122 Wing), Squadron Leader DE Umbers (No. 486 Squadron), unknown.
Published in Mackie's biography 'Spitfire Leader' by Max Avery and Christopher Shores.
Image from the Evan Dall Mackie personal collection.
Informal group of pilots from No. 122 Wing in front of a Tempest at RAF Station Volkel, Holland.
Standing from 6th left: Squadron Leader KF Thiele (No. 3 Squadron), Squadron Leader AE Umbers (No. 486 Squadron), Squadron Leader ED Mackie (No. 274 Squadron) Flight Lieutenant HA Crafts (No. 274 Squadron), Squadron Leader RF Spurdle (No. 80 Squadron).
Published in Mackie's biography 'Spitfire Leader' by Max Avery and Christopher Shores.
No. 486 Squadron pilots and personnel in front of and on the wings of a Typhoon. RAF Station Tangmere.
On Propeller hub: JR Cullen, RH Fitzgibbon, WJ Swinton.
Standing on wing: NS Parkes, Rainbow, JR Powell (crouching), LJ Appleton, F Murphy.
Sitting on wing: AN Sames, MO Jorgensen, WB Tyreman, RJ Dall, CN Gall, JA Froggatt, BC Thompson, DG Fail, NW Faircloth, NE Preston, M McCarthy, RJ Danzey.
Standing in front: JG Wilson, HN Thomas, ID Waddy, DJ Scott, AH Smith, M Lees, HC Saward.
Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection.
No. 486 Squadron pilot, Reginald John Atkinson, holding a dinghy paddle, standing in front of a crashed Stirling. Unknown location.
Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection.
No. 486 Squadron pilot, Reginald John Atkinson, sitting in a rubber dinghy in front of a crashed Stirling. Unknown location.
Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection.
Abandoned German aircraft on the tarmac in front of a hangar. Fassberg, Germany.
Handwritten on the reverse "Thanks Goering but surely you need these kites. Gerries hurried exit left these careless [unreadable]. Fassberg. Germany. April 1945."
Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection.
Abandoned German aircraft outside a hangar at Fassberg, Germany.
Handwritten on the reverse "As Gerries left it. Fassberg, Celle, Germany. April 45."
Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection.
No. 486 Squadron pilot, Reginald John Atkinson, sitting in his Tempest SA-V at Fassberg, Germany.
Handwritten on the reverse "Lets press the tits & see what happens. Just before an 'op'. Flak hole on undercarriage fairing just been repaired. Fassberg. April 45."