Australian and New Zealand airmen serving with No. 273 (Spitfire) Squadron RAF, enjoy ...

Accession Number SEA0250A
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Place made Burma: Rangoon
Date made 19 May 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Australian and New Zealand airmen serving with No. 273 (Spitfire) Squadron RAF, enjoy sight-seeing in the recaptured city of Rangoon. Left to right, 420095 WO Mark Wood, RAAF of Fairfield West, NSW, 410045 Warrant Officer (WO) R. N. (Bob) Dutneall, RAAF of Kew, Vic, 412991 WO L. J. Masters, RAAF of Swansea, NSW, WO T. Holland Trusler, Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) of Ponsonby, Auckland, Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Rex Lawlor, RNZAF of Palmerston North, NZ, Flt Sgt Hugh McIntyre, RNZAF of Fielding, NZ, WO H. G. Irons, RNZAF of Island Bay, Wellington, NZ, before a huge stone 'Chinthi', the national emblem of Burma, in the grounds of the Shwe Dagon pagoda.