Image from the Francis David Colin Brown personal collection.
Warrant Officer FD Colin Brown (right) with the parachute packer, Leading Aircraftman JN Powell, who packed the parachute that saved Brown's life after an accident in his No. 681 Squadron Spitfire. RAF Station Dum Dum, India.
See page 298 - 299 of the Official History Vol 3 by Thompson.
See also 2011-407.4
Image from the Francis David Colin Brown personal collection.
Warrant Officer FD Colin Brown holding the ripcord of his parachute after being forced to bale out of his No. 681 Squadron Spitfire while on a photographic reconnaissance sortie. RAF Station Dum Dum, India.
See page 298 - 299 of the Official History Vol 3 by Thompson.
See also 2011-407.6.
Image from the Robert Kenneth Brown personal collection.
Four No. 681 Squadron pilots(?) posing for the camera with one of their Spitfires at RAF Station Imphal, India.
Handwritten on the reverse "681 Sqdn. | Imphal Detachment | Oct 1944", with two signatures and a drawing of a winged aerial camera.
Image from the Robert Kenneth Brown personal collection.
Nose art a uniformed duck with "Vewwy funny", on a No. 681 Squadron Spitfire. RAF Station Imphal India.
Image from the Robert Kenneth Brown personal collection.
Ground crew preparing a No. 681 Squadron Spitfire for flight. RAF Station Imphal India.
Nose art shows a uniformed duck with "Vewwy funny".
Handwritten on the reverse "Imphal."