Hawker Typhoons of No. 609 Squadron, RAF, at forward base in Normandy, 1944.  Mascot Billy de Goat's exploits with the local goat ladies occasioned a certain amount of worry, leading to his human friends having him neutered in the interests of general entente.  JR.

609 Squadron in Normandy.

Billy de Goat with 609 Squadron friends, sporting the "insignia" of his "honorary rank" of Wing Commander on horns and collar, 1943.  He earned this "promotion" by eating 30 cigarettes, 2 bowls of flowers and the commanding officer's mess bill.  By the end of the war, Billy had "risen" to the extraordinary rank of Air Commodore.  It is not clear what happened to Billy following demobilisation in 1945.  Not roast "cabrito", one hopes ...  JR.

Ranking Officer.

Airmen in tropical dress work on the Allison engine of a Lend-Lease Curtiss Tomahawk for the RAF in a makeshift hangar, perhaps at Takoradi, Gold Coast, today Ghana. The aircraft is likely one of the single-engine fighters shipped from USA in crates on board of merchant ships and reassembled in Western Africa before the ferry to Egypt. Victor Sierra