A Spitfire IX of 453 Sqn RAAF, 2nd Tactical Air Force, based at RAF Station Ford, Sussex, England. 25 May 1944.

453 Sqn Spitfire IX

Momote airfield, Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, New Guinea. August 1944. Flt Lt Benjamin Bernard (Barney) Newman, seated in the cockpit of a 79 Sqn RAAF Spitfire Mk VC, A58-167 (RAF No. ES249), code UP-?, (formerly coded UP-N in 1943 and UP-H in 1944 before an accident)  Newman had previously completed a tour of operations with 41 Sqn RAF (Squadron of St Omer) in the UK, and was killed in action at Wasile Bay, Halmahera Islands, Netherlands East Indies on 2 August 1945 - the last wartime casualty of No. 79 Squadron.  Photographer: William Robinson

Flt Lt Newman, 79 Sqn RAAF

Sussex, England. 14-Oct-1943.  The inside of a transport aircraft which helped move 453 (Spitfire) Sqn RAAF from RAF Station Tangmere to RAF Station Skeabrae in the Orkneys. The aircraft carried much of the luggage as well as some of the squadron personnel.