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LEADING AIR MECHANIC MAURICE C WHITEING, 1917-2009

...... and FLEET AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS INDOMITABLE in the INDIAN and PACIFIC OCEANS, 1944-1945, Part 2 of 4

Photographs and information supplied by his son Paul Whiteing
Edited by Gordon Smith, Naval-History.Net

 HMS Indomitable
(click on all photographs for enlargements)
 

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  Autumn 1944 off Sumatra
(Indian Ocean Campaign Summary)

From the magazine "Illustrated", 24 February 1945 edition

 
     

Page 17

Page 18

Page 19
     

page 20
     
 
     
  late 1944 - INDIA and CEYLON/SRI LANKA  
     
     

Dry-dock at Bombay - bottom being scraped

Maurice Whiteing

Dry dock at Bombay
     

Water not beer, ashore at China Bay

 


possibly China Bay again

Beaufighters at China Bay airfield (Trincomalee, Ceylon/Sri Lanka)

 

     

Inchmopola (spelling? - not located), India - Maurice, back row, fourth from left

George Cheedle, "Subby" Neil, Maurice Whiteing on right
     

Tony Fry

Gordon Whiteing (right) and friend

First oranges?
     

Katakalunda, Ceylon/Sri Lanka.

('Katakalunda' may have been Katakurunda, a bit south of Colombo in 6:00N 80:18E, where there was a Royal Naval Air Station, HMS UKUSSA, 1942-1946 - thanks to Tim Stoneman).


India 1944 - Maurice on right 
     

Jungle, Ulundafet (spelling? possibly Ulunderpet), India - Maurice Whiteing 

Bombay Castle - sitting, middle row left, Maurice Whiteing; right, Air Mechanic Albert Mackley (identified by his grandson mark Floyd)

India - Maurice on left
     

 


"Snowball"
     

possibly  Bandalawela

possibly market place, Bandalawela
     

Maurice on right

India 1944 top - Maurice Whiteing and Tony Brown, bottom - "Gloria" and Reg Holton
     

Kalakarunda (spelling? not located)
 

probably 1944 - Indomitable Christmas Card, 1839 Squadron

 


Indomitable Christmas Card - probably 1944 as still flying Barracudas
 

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