Ground crew of 81 Squadron service a Thunderbolt aircraft at Kemajoran airfield, Batavia, in readiness for operations against Indonesian nationalists at Sourabaya (Soerabaja) in Java, 1945, Photo : IWM


British occupation on java

Official caption: "On board HMS Victorious en route from Scapa Flow to Hvalfjord, Iceland, November 1941. Wheeling a torpedo into position on the flight deck of VICTORIOUS, ready to be loaded onto a Fairey Albacore. Fairey Albacores can be seen in the background."
 A Fairey Fulmar is also visible in the background.

Torpedo loading


This is an aerial photograph of the Campomarino plain dated 9 Sep. 1945 (© 2008 Istituto Geografico Militare). 
It was taken from an altitude of 7500m at a scale of 1:55000.   The area depicted here is East of the town of Termoli (Molise region, province of Campobasso) and is comprised between the river Biferno to the West and the river Saccione to the East both visible on the right and left side of the photograph..

The airfields coordinates were: BIFERNO airfield runway & dispersal:	41°57'34.95"N, 15°2'55.67"E; CANNE airfield runway & dispersal: 41°55'50.77"N, 15°3'45.91"E; MADNA airfield runway & dispersal: 41°55'10.99"N, 15°4'46.76"E;  RAMITELLI airfield runway & dispersal: 41°53'53.25"N, 15° 6'48.17"E; NUOVA Airfield 41°53'3.02"N, 15°4'57.12"E