LAC. Wallace Jackson in North Africa and Italy with 70 Squadron, RAF, 1941-1944
 

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LAC George Steel

contributed by Lorna Gibson

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 George Steel served as ground crew in North Africa and shares several of the photographs and other material with comrades who are recorded on this website.   In 1944 he was "mentioned in dispatches".

            

    Abu Sueir, Egypt, 15.09.42
   
In November 1940, 70 Squadron sent a number of Wellington bombers to assist the Greeks repel the Italian invasion from Albania, operating from Menidi and Eleusis airfields near Athens.   These photographs from a section of G. Steel's album focusing on Athens seem to indicate he was part of the ground crew involved.   Athens fell to the Germans in April 1941 and was not liberated until October 1944.

From the Greek section of the album

Menidi airfield, Tatoi, Greece

Pic. also featured on the 211 Squadron tribute site

Athens: the Erechtheion, Acropolis

Athens: Street near the Library of Greece (Corner Pezmazoglou and Stadiou?)

Athens: Syntagma Square

Athens: the Parthenon
Stationed in Heliopolis (6-9/40) and Kabrit (9/40-1/42), there were opportunities to visit Cairo and Giza with relaxation by the Bitter Lakes.

Cairo: Mosque of Muhammed Ali (right top) and the Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan from the Mosque of Ibn Tulun

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