View Full Version : RAF Akrotiri - 1950's
MrDallas
23rd Aug 2023, 17:23
Having exhausted google, and constantly surprised as a long time lurker of the information that is out there, has anyone got any pictures RAF Akrotiri between 1955-1960 :)
Archives 1955 1960 RAF Akrotiri (http://www.rafakrotiri.co.uk/5560.html)
MrDallas
24th Aug 2023, 09:19
Many thanks wub, that was the site that started the interest funnily enough, i asked a question on here many years ago and the pictures of a canberra based there were fantastic and never seen them on the internet previously which spiked my interest of what else is out there ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwQsxieFmQI
Quietplease
28th Aug 2023, 10:46
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1325/scan_023_ed7851ec58fc64e3525442186d11b4eea679832d.jpg
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1493/scan_027_d70654aa102a9f21b969f6a9b0cdfc950e595383.jpg
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1351/scan_029_52fa687a632cec299f267d7050d11d890fd4ea96.jpg
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1333/scan_040_1a36143a6511ffbfb8b3b7ed4a7c9f45032d8724.jpg
Akrotiri 1959-60.
Lots of sand, dirt and barbed wire.
Offices were Canal Zone railway trucks and crewroom a small marquee.
Moving to the other end of the field into pre-fab wooden huts which weren't ready for us.
Quietplease
28th Aug 2023, 10:56
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1527/scan_032_5b340ed597554a12eadb5c2109c14ad8bceccaf2.jpg
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1550/scan_033_95d093bbad511f4b78a5805e0bcad05851689f5a.jpg
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1563/scan_034_d4e26629cf125c5509936ebab0491a3553d961ec.jpg
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1250/scan_035_3f7a55c3345267c42b67acb273dd246c7af955b8.jpg
A few more, sorry about the quality.
MrDallas
30th Aug 2023, 11:09
no need to apologise absolutely fantastic and much appreciated :)