488(NZ) Squadron RAF
2nd February 1944
On 2nd February 1944, a photo was taken of the Squadron’s aircrew. The copy from Broody’s collection is well annotated with the name and rank of all present. There are some notable absences, including Vlotman & Wood, Hall P & Marriott and Hall J & Cairns. This may be because of leave; or as I can account for 3 entire crews absent, possibly some NFT flights. (There were no operational flights until 21:05 on this day). There are also 3 crews from the Fleet Air Arm (back row, in the centre) who were attached to the Squadron for night fighting training.
Broody is standing 4th from the left on the second row, directly behind Jack Scott. It is great to have such a well annotated photo, which allows me to put faces to so many names I have read about in the ORB and elsewhere.
Broody's war 
March 22nd, 2014 at 10:01 pm
If you repost this picture and copy all the names, then people can find them using Google search.
June 29th, 2014 at 12:15 am
[…] image below is a crop from the Squadron photo of February 1944, and shows Clark (Top Left) standing next to Broody. On the bottom row is Robinson (left) and […]
September 27th, 2016 at 9:18 pm
My Grandad is 5th from left 2nd row. Kenneth bishop.
January 27th, 2018 at 2:49 am
I have a family photo of Peter Hall taken in the cockpit if you are interested. His son in the UK has his flight log.
January 27th, 2018 at 12:09 pm
That would be great Richard. Could you send me an email via the Contact page on the blog? Thanks.
February 14th, 2018 at 6:53 am
Photo send Adam. Did you get it okay?