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B-17 "Sahara Jack"

UPL 82982

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 82982
  • Description: Pilot Richard Wehmeyer adding final touches to "Sahara Jack's" nose art.
B-17 "Sahara Jack"

UPL 82976

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 82976
  • Description: B-17 "Sahara Jack" and crew at Istres, France during Green Project, August 15, 1945.
Edward J O'Brien portrait

UPL 82966

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 82966
  • Description: Edward J O'Brien, 2nd Lt. 306th BG
John Pastorella

UPL 82960

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 82960
  • Description: T/Sgt John P. Pastorella
Joe Louis in the ring

UPL 75790

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 75790
  • Description: S/Sgt. Joe Louis, the world's heavy weight boxing champion is mixing it up with 1st Sgt. George Robinson, his sparring partner for officers and men of...
British prisoners of war tend their garden at Stalag Luft III.

HU 20930

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: IWM collections
  • Object Number: HU 20930
  • Description: British prisoners of war tend their garden at Stalag Luft III.
Three British prisoners of war produce news sheets in one of the huts at Stalag Luft III PoW camp

HU 20928

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: IWM collections
  • Object Number: HU 20928
  • Description: Three British prisoners of war produce news sheets in one of the huts at Stalag Luft III PoW camp.
Waiting for morning roll call

IWM Documents.12877

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: IWM collections
  • Object Number: IWM Documents.12877
  • Description: Sketch by Flight Lieutenant A Cassie showing prisoners waiting for morning roll call ("Appell" at Stalag Luft III
Soft-topped cap of grey fabric with a rigid cloth bound peak of the same material. A grey band is tied around the cap, terminating in a bow and having an enamelled Red Cross badge fitted to the centre of the bow.

UNI 13869

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: IWM collections
  • Object Number: UNI 13869
  • Description: Rhoda Robinson's Red Cross service cap
Crew of the Piccadilly Commando

UPL 82937

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 82937
  • Description: Crew of the Piccadilly Commando
Clarence Jack Begin

UPL 82935

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 82935
  • Description: Clarence Jack Begin
Robert Bucholz

UPL 82933

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 82933
  • Description: Robert Bucholz
Robert E Anderson

UPL 82929

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 82929
  • Description: Robert E Anderson
Elmer Mercurio

UPL 82927

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 82927
  • Description: Elmer (Buster) Mercurio
Elmer Mercurio

UPL 82925

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 82925
  • Description: Elmer (Buster) Mercurio
Elmer (Buster) Mercurio

UPL 82923

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 82923
  • Description: Elmer (Buster) Mercurio
Alfred Charles Froning

UPL 82921

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 82921
  • Description: Alfred Charles Froning
Robert Schreppel DFC citation

UPL 82917

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 82917
  • Description: Robert Schreppel's DFC citation
Robert Schreppel's mission log

UPL 82915

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 82915
  • Description: Robert Schreppel's mission log