FRE 6978

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William "Bill" Polley pretends to be a guard at Windsor Castle. Image by William Polley, 942nd Engineer Aviation Topographic Battalion, 8th Air Force. Associated caption: 'Your's Truly aiding & abetting a King's Guard at a castl gate, taken while stationed at "Pinetree", 8th AF Headquarters High Wycombe. 4/30/44-1/15/45.'
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William "Bill" Polley pretends to be a guard at Windsor Castle. Image by William Polley, 942nd Engineer Aviation Topographic Battalion, 8th Air Force. Associated caption: 'Your's Truly aiding & abetting a King's Guard at a castle gate, taken while stationed at "Pinetree", 8th AF Headquarters High Wycombe. 4/30/44-1/15/45.'

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People

Private First Class Charles Parks and William "Bill" Polley swap hats with an Etonian schoolboy. Image by William Polley, 942nd Engineer Aviation Topographic Battalion, 8th Air Force. Associated caption: 'Hat exchange a "NoNo"- Charles Parks & Bill Polley, Yanks. taken while stationed at "Pinetree", 8th AF Headquarters High Wycombe. 4/30/44-1/15/45.'

William E Polley

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 942nd Engineer Topographic Battalion

Locations

8th Air Force accomodation at Daws Hill House. Image via JR Johnson. Written on slide casing: 'Daws Hill House.'

High Wycombe

  • Site type: Military site
  • Known as: Camp Lynn; Daws Hill; Pinetree

Revisions

Date:
ContributorWD-C Mustang
ChangesChanges to caption
Sources

Corrected spelling of "castle"

Date:
ContributorAAM
ChangesAAM ingest
Sources

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection