1940 RAF aircrew, "To Billy with love"(photo)
This photo is from “My Family Tree’s photo album”.
The man on the right(arrowed) in my mother’s cousin’s Billy, wife’s brother, Tom Bainbridge. or my 2nd cousin’s uncle by marriage. (I think?)
The 2nd WW started in Europe in 1939 and the RAF’s Bomber Command was already suffering heavy losses. This photo, taken in 1940, looks like they’d just finished training and were dividing up into bomber crews. I don’t know if Tom survived the war but his brother Billy, to whom this photo was sent, an air gunner in a Defiant didn’t.
1940 RAF aircrew, "To Billy with love"(photo) belongs to the following groups:
"Exceptional Ekphrasis", Aeronautics & Aviation, Days Gone By (Photographs must be twenty years or older and include people please), Military Related Art (Past or Present), The Family Album, (Pics From the Past ONLY), War and WARBIRDS
AngelPhotozzz
Wow some good lookin guys here! lol I salute them!!!!!!
Woodie replied
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And young, probably under 20!!!
(Blycreem boys, (that a hair dressing)) they were called by the other services.
Thanks Neil
Spencer Trickett
Great pic. Both my Grandparents served in the RAF in WW2. Wish I had pictures this clear. Thanks for Sharing
Woodie replied
Thanks for looking mate,
My father was in the RAF during the war but I haven’t any photo from that period.
Cheers Neil
adgray
HOW YOUNG!!!!
The one in full head gear only looks about 15!!!
Off on adventures that’s for sure – the original Top Guns!
I’m hugging my two adult sons very very tight!
Thank you for this!
Chookas! X♥X
LOL @ the “Brylcream Boys” lol my dad wouldn’t use it because of that … well he did when he was older lol
In my youth it was the “Brute 33 Boys”
now it’s the “Lynx Lot” lol
Gotta love advertising to get rid of pubescent boy’s B.O. !!! lol ♥
Woodie replied
Thanks Chookas!!
Edward Denyer
Excellent Picture of some of the Lads who fought in W.W.II. Will accept it into Warbirds as a tribute to them.
Woodie replied
Thanks Ted!!
CLiPiCs
Wonderful and very touching pic Woodie
Love ‘N’ Laughter Kriss