Chrissie Kruishaar photographs 2

 Photograph album 2

Kruyshaar, Lt. Jan Peter "Chrissie"

2 Squadron, North Africa 1942-1943

Captions from photographs: text marked in Italic










These photographs originate from the archives of the SAAF museum. It was kindly made available to me by the museum staff. I placed the photographs on this web site in order to share these gems to historians, enthusiasts and the wider public. Please respect the copy rights of these photographs and contact me to obtain the necessary permission if you want to duplicate some of this material in other web sites or printed matter.

thanks

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


22) Paddy Hope?

 

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

 

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