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• SDASM Archives 344 photos & illustrations
• British Library 319 photos & illustrations
• New York Public Library 122 photos & illustrations
• Navy Medicine 51 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 42 photos & illustrations
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 26 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 17 photos & illustrations
• The National Archives UK 16 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 14 photos & illustrations
• Gallen-Kallelan Museo 13 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 10 photos & illustrations
• IWM Collections 10 photos & illustrations

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107 MU Kasfareet, Egypt - Bitter lakes

from SDASM Archives

• swanq said:

  www.geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=9321121&...

• swanq said:

  107muassociation.weebly.com/ 107 MU was a British RAF station on the Suez Canal. These boats bear the "K" that for many years identified British (UK) sailing boats for racing. So the British servicemen had brought some sailing boats out for recreation. Edwin Newman served with the RAF.

• Abject Silk said:

  Any idea what year this photo was taken?

• swanq said:

  According to discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4100748 "107 Maintenance Unit, [was] formed at Geneifa (later renamed Kasfareet), Egypt, December 1940." www.rafkasfareet1953-56.com/ indicates that 107MU was closed down in 1956. So the date is no earlier than December 1940 and no later than 1956. A relaxed picture like this seems likely to be after the Battle of El Alamein in 1942. Newman was in the Middle East for a long while, but I haven't been able to find when he left.

Handley-Page, Halifax

from SDASM Archives

• Gordon Riley said:

  Egyptian Air Force, post WW2

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from SDASM Archives

• Stig Jarlevik said:

  May I ask if this photo and all others taken in Egypt are out of focus or if some kind of failure with the scanning has occured? They are all very interesting, but this lack of clarity makes any detailed ID very hard. Stig

• SDASM Archives said:

  Stig Jarlevik The originals are out of focus, it might have been due to poor quality of copying several years ago...

• Stig Jarlevik said:

  SDASM Archives What a pity! Especially those DH-86 shots are very rare indeed, at least to me. Stig