The Photographic Library at the AHM of WA is a vast treasure of photographic images from all periods of aviation history. We currently have over 32,000 images in all forms from glass plate negatives, nitrate & cellulose negatives, slides (colour & B/W), photos and computer scans. The vast majority come from private collections and most haven't been published before.

In the collection there are images from the dawn of aviation in W.A, Australia and the World, WWI aircraft (including a rare selection of prototypes of RFC/RAF and French aircraft) both from the Western Front and the Middle East, England and even the Italian Front. There is also post war civil and military, WWII (all fronts) and post WWII to current times (civil & military). These photos are all under copyright to the Museum and can only be published with due recognition to their source.

These photos can be purchased from the Museum as the Museum's Photo No. is shown next to each photo, if no number is shown it's from my own personal collection. The Museum's address and details are as below:

Aviation Heritage Museum of WA
Bull Creek Drive
Bull Creek WA 6149
Phone: (08) 9311-4470
Fax : (08) 9311-4455
Email: museum1@raafawa.org.au
Website:www.raafa.org.au

Please mark all correspondence attention to the Photographic Library or myself.

Mick Mirkovic, Photographic Librarian, AHM of WA

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This issue we have a selection of images of Russian P-40s plus some misc images that came from Mick. (Steve).

1 - Tomahawk IIA AH965, 126 Fighter Aviation Regiment, Moscow, Dec., 1941.
2 - 3 Tomahawk IIAs with AH965 in the middle,126 Fighter Aviation Regiment, Moscow, c.1942.
3 - P-40E Kittyhawk #22, 2nd Guards Red Banner Aviation Regiment, Northern Air Fleet, Soviet Navy, Vaenga, c.1942.
4 - P-40E Kittyhawk #24, 2nd GKAP, Northern Air Fleet, Vaegna, c.1942.
5 - P-40E Kittyhawk #12, 2nd Guards Red Banner Aviation Regiment, Northern Air Fleet, Vaegna, c.1942.
6 - 3 x P-40K-5 Kiityhawks #32 and #96, 7th Fighter Aviation Regiment, Black Sea Air Fleet, Soviet Navy, c.1944.
7 - P-40M Kittyhawk #99, 19th Guards Mixed Aviation Regiment, Soviet Air Force, Karelian Front, Jan., 1944.
8 - P-40M-5 Kittyhawk 43-5540 281, Soviet Air Force Research Centre, Moscow, c.1943.
9 - 454 Squadron Baltimore Mk.V FW366 'G' Pilot Sdr.Ldr. Don Beaton, 9 June, 1944, Italy.
10 - 454 Squadron crashed on take-off Baltimore Mk.IV FA417 'N', LG91, Egypt, 13 Oct., 1943.
11 - EA-18G Growler A46-306 in flight, 6 Squadron, c.2018.
12 - EA-18G Growler A46-306, 6 Squadron 100th Annivesary Scheme, Exercise Red Flag 18-1, Nellis AFB, Nevada, c.2018.
13 - Ex-USAAF P-40Es being assembled for 77 Squadron, Maylands, March, 1942.

And below is identification notes that Mick forwarded for a couple of unidentified images I ran in issue 39/4.
P000329 - Albany Monoplane c.1915, probably at Albany Beach prior to it's second flight.
P002159 - 204 Squadron RAF Saro London during a flight of 5 from England for the 1938 NSW 150th Anniversary, probably at Albany on the way back to England in June, 1938.

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