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Haymarket Metro Station escalator shaft

from North East Museums

  • Rhubus said:
    People fail to realise that all of this concrete and ironwork is still there but behind the lovely clean bright facade surrounding the escalators.

Allied airfield crew working on Lockheed P-38 fighter planes, New Guinea, c. 1944

from State Library of New South Wales

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  • covid convict said:
    I suspect these guys might be working on the motors from a Lockheed P-38 Lightning...the Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk/Warhawk had a very different air intake, etc...I'm guessing, but I suspect they're USAAF rather than RAAF...possibly the 49th Fighter Group...someone who knows about their operational history might be able to confirm this or add info re a possible location...they were briefly at Darwin in 1942...

    Pic 25 of this series shows a row of P-38's lined up...if you zoom in you can see the match-ups...

    collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YezElR29/gpLqLxERm44ye

    www.flickr.com/photos/193158484@N02/51754273338 - couple of P-40's here...as you can see, they're a different animal...
  • the half-blood prince said:
    🔥 😮 ~~
  • State Library of New South Wales said:
    covid convict I'll update with a ? on the P-38s for the moment. Thanks for helping out.
  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
    Nice detail of a P-38 that looks like a good match - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-38_Lightning#/media/File...
    And see main article - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-38_Lightning

    I tend to agree with 'covid convict', the US 49th Fighter Group were equiped with the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk while stationed in Australia before moving to New Guinea in Oct 1942. In September 1944, the group was re-equipped completely with Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft, providing a possible date for the photo, and following the same train of thought, the location is likely to be Port Moresby. Although only a month later they were located to the Philippines - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/49th_Fighter_Group

    The other observation that may support covid convict's USAF ID is the head gear, Aussie aircraftsmen would probably be wearing the standard issue slouch hat not a baseball cap.
  • State Library of New South Wales said:
    All looks plausible - I will update the entry and thanks for the links.

Haymarket Metro Station escalator shaft

from North East Museums

  • Paul W L Jones said:
    Something odd to the top right of the photo? Can you explain - cheers - Paul
  • Joseph Kelly said:
    Odd is an understatement! The figure is very static (see left hand) but very translucent, standing between steps, and entirely at the wrong angle (ie, leaning backwards about 30 degrees.) If this were a 'genuine' person moving about in the image they would be blurred, but translucence without movement is impossible and thie effect shown can only be achieved by a double exposure. (I'm a press photographer of 40 years experience).
  • Joseph Kelly said:
    I've just downloaded this image and magnified it, and things get even stranger. Above the person's head tucked to the right of the escalator is an fuzzy 'phallic' object that doesn't have the same focus qualities of its surrounding objects, so doesn't belong in this image either. A private joke of some sort?