Photograph album 2
Kruyshaar, Lt. Jan Peter "Chrissie"
2 Squadron, North Africa 1942-1943
Captions from photographs: text marked in Italic
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Tinus le Roux
Jan 2016
1) Mounted 50mm AT gun.int
2) Move
3) Move
4) My beard going.
5) My mechanics Eloff and Botha
6) my pet bunny
7) notice along the road
8) Officers mess.
9) Officers mess.
10) On the move
11) our 3.7 aa gun
12) Our 109 engine
13) Our castle near Sfax
14) Our own graveyard.
15) Our picked up charging plant
16) Our picked up charging plant
17) Outside Tunis.
18) Own home made bomb
19) Paddy Hope Bullets in cockpit.
20) Paddy Hope
21) Panzer III wreck.int
23) Kruyshaar
24) Paddy Hope?
25) Pilot group
26)
27) Pilots scramble
28) POW
29) POW
30) POW Tunis
31) Prang. Sqdn mascot
32) Pranged Kitty tkn off drome
33) Preparing a bomb
34) Kruyshaar: log book of Jock Wight
35) refueling Lodestar.
36)
37) Roman ruins
38) Roman statue
39)
40) Sfax as we found it
41) Sgt Jones on knocked out Hanomag.int
42) Ship wreck
43) Sidi Resech grave yard.int ?
44) sleeping hole. J Wight
45) SM 79 wreck
46) Sousse Harb as Jerrie left it
47) Spit fly
48) Spit shoot up
49)
50) Start of Gala. Cape Bon
51) Stuka
52)
53)
54) Sudanese guard
55) Swazi Steward and self. Beduins Tunisia
56)
57) Tame 109. Martuba
58) Majors: LtR: , , Colenbrander 2 sqn, Peter Metelerkamp 1 sqn, Kalfie Martin 3 wing, , Doug Loftus 7 sqn,
59) Tomahawk 4 sqdn.
60)
61) Truck got hit
62) Tunis
63) Unescorted POW at fall of Tunis
64) Ventura shadow
65) Waiting to go on leave
66) Walrus
67) Winding up our 109