... you're in for a big surprise !  Not the Teddy Bear's Picnic, but a Bren gunner of the 7th Gurkha Rifles, under cover in the Burmese jungle, ?1944.  Best regards, JR.

If you go down to the woods today ...

A maintenance crew at work on a Gloster Meteor F Mark III of No. 616 Squadron RAF Detachment at B58/Melsbroek, Belgium. On the left, an armourer is using a cleaning rod on one of the four 20mm cannon housed in the aircraft's nose.

greetz,brummbar

White Meteor 2

Italian serviceman attend to salvage of a RAF’s Bristol Beaufighter forced to land with wheels up on a Southern Italy’s beach (likely Sicily). Note the entire tail’s structure collapsed at the moment of the contact with the soil. Date and event’s circumstances unknown. Victor Sierra