Menasco Moths : wireless trainees, Winnipeg 1941

Object detail

Accession number

04-3071

Description

Right side of a grounded bi-plane. The number on the body reads 4860. It is behind a roundel. There is a capital D on the tail. There is a uniformed man standing in front of the wing either shutting or opening a panel in front of the cockpit. There is a second man walking past the propeller. This is one plane in a line of planes. Parts of other planes can be seen on either side of it. In the left background are two men standing next to a second plane. In the distance are two large buildings and a single winged plane with CA on the body. The building to the left has a structure built over the roof. Steps provide access to a roof platform.

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Paper/Photographic
Organic/Vegetal/Wood
Processed Material/Paper

Physical description

1 photograph : black and white ; 8 x 15 cm.

Collection

Bomber Command Collection

Credit Line

1941. Menasco Moths : wireless trainees, Winnipeg 1941, 04-3071. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

Production place

Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada
North America
Americas

Current rights

No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Classification

Photograph Print, Photographic Communication Artefacts Documentary Artefacts Graphic Documents

Subject

Training Flight crews Canada Radio operators

Collection type

Pictorial Walsh Memorial Library

Subject auto tags

Aircraft Airplane Propeller Aerospace manufacturer Propeller-driven aircraft Military aircraft Aviation Vehicle Flight

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