File:Billy Strachan with RAF flight crew 1945.jpg

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Flight Lieutenant Billy Strachan (far right) poses with fellow allied pilots during WW2

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English: Flight Lieutenant Billy Strachan (far right) poses with fellow fellow allied pilots during WW2. Billy Strachan would go onto become a communist activist and pioneer of black civil rights in Britain.

Many of the details of this photograph, such as its date or creation, and which squadrons the pilots belong to, are contradictory. The Australian War Memorial and the International Bomber Command Center at Lincoln University provide contradictory details.

This photograph is also available in the collections of the Australian War Memorial: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2141221?image=1

Internet archive: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2141221?image=1
Date or 1945
Source

Collections of Royal Air Force (RAF) Flying Officer Leonard William Dorricott, International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive - University of Lincoln

https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/7268

Archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230508183114/https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/7268
Author Unknown Royal Air Force personnel

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This work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain.

This is because it is one of the following:

  1. It is a photograph taken prior to 1 June 1957; or
  2. It was published prior to 1974; or
  3. It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created prior to 1974.

HMSO has declared that the expiry of Crown Copyrights applies worldwide (ref: HMSO Email Reply)
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