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Old 8th Jun 2014, 11:58
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BEagle
 
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RECCE JOURNAL

Wensleydale wrote:
I assume that the excellent magazine "Recognition Journal" is no longer produced and distributed to the armed forces - a victim of funding cuts no doubt?!
Many years ago, the Education Section at the Covert Oxonian Aerodrome was having a clear out of the library. Someone was about to throw away a large number of magazines, but the wife of one of our Flt Cdrs (who worked there), managed to save a box full, which her husband passed on to me.....

Including the first ever edition of the 'Inter-Services Aircraft Recognition Journal', dated September 1942:


Here's one from a few years later (January 1958), by which time it was the 'Joint Services Recognition Journal:


OK - it's obviously a Spitfire on the cover of the Sep '42 edition, but anyone care to guess the aeroplane and ship on the Jan '58 edition? Or the carrier from which the photo was taken?

No doubt Haraka will know?
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