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The two guys working on the engine change in the photo above, bear an uncanny resemblance to the two fellows working with me, the younger one on this Wright Cyclone radial. Of course they can't be the same. The other pictures are of a crash salvage that I did in PNG. Just a rock as a work bench...

That was interesting MIflyer, obviously they did minor airframe repairs.

Thankyou Artesh, for your welcome. I see you are involved with a military museum, I am currently looking at doing some voluntary work in the same. My younger days my time was spent doing aircraft maintenance, as well as repairs. I also did some crash salvage jobs where we did some fairly major...

Thankyou buffnut453, but you have told me nothing I did not already know. So it would seem minor and/or larger airframe repairs were not done at the field. Maybe they just de-burred and slapped a fabric patch over. It is possible each crew carried a "tucker pop riveter", or "cherry lock" gun...

Hi all, my first post, so here goes, I was intending to try to write a book, a fiction novel which depicts the life on a ww2 airbase, the staff, the hardships and about the unnoticed hero's that kept the pilots in the air. To date I have not seen a book like this. However I feel I have left the...