Exclusive Pictures From Alaska Circa 1942 – Redux

Pictures from Leonard Weston’s collection

RCAF No. 403 Squadron

Editor’s note…

Have you noticed something on one of these old pictures?

I just did!

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More pictures from Lorne Weston’s collection with this message…

Hello again Pierre

Here are more Alaska pictures for you, all but one un-dated, with Dad’s notes, where possible.

Crack up

 

Kitty Hawk (sic) crash landing Alaska

 

 

 

Bolingbrook (sic) landing Alaska

 

seaplane base Alaska

 

runway

 

 

Alaskan Airfield

(sign reads); 1 MILE

                  <———–

                  FATHER NESBITTS

                  BOYS TOWN

                  WELCOME

 

(back of picture); WING COM. NESBITT

                         SQAD. LEADER ASHMAN

                         PILOT OFFICER BULTON

                         AUG 1942 ALASKA

 

airborne on dawn patrol Alaska

 

Kitty Hawk (sic) landing Alaska

 

Back in the 1960s Dad told me that the “dawn patrol” picture, and others like it which I have, were taken from the Observer’s seat of a U.S.A.A.C. PB-Y Catalina, but I don’t know if they were…

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