I Think I Prefer the Tinned Variety

I found some interesting photos the other day of women in the Women's Royal Naval Service with the Fleet Air Arm in Scotland in 1943. The first photo shows the WRNS working as radio mechanics. They are preparing to board a Fleet Air Arm aircraft to test the radio whilst the aircraft is in flight. This was the job my dad did too and he also started his service in Scotland before being sent out to West Africa. By Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons This photo is even more interesting as it gives a great idea of what the job of the radio mechanic entailed. By Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons When they weren't fixing the radios, the WRNS could also turn their hands to other electrical equipment in need of repair! By Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

I found an interesting film segment on YouTube the other day. It's a Pathe News clip showing a MONAB in Australia. If MONAB is an unfamiliar term then maybe read these posts first. http://tinned-variety.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/monab-1-10.html http://tinned-variety.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/hms-nabaron-monab-4-msr6-1945.html The caption seems to suggest that  the film is of Australian forces  but I think they're British forces. Anyway, at the opening of the clip  there's some really good footage of the sort of activities  the MONAB was involved in. By the way, anyone who has a particular interest in  WW2 in the Pacific will like this website: Pacific Wrecks .

The other new photos of Freetown in WW2 I've found on WikiCommons. By Roper, F G (Lt) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Nigerian Bandsmen Entertain British Sailors  6 December 1942, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Men of the Royal Navy  back from an Anti-U-boat patrol in the Atlantic,  come ashore  to find the band of the Royal West African Frontier Force  playing in front of the Naval Canteen.  The musical director is Lieutenant McEwan. By Royal Navy official photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons African Naval ratings march past  His Excellency the Governor of Sierra Leone,  Major Sir Hubert Stevenson, KCMG, OBE, MC  who received the salute on the balcony of the Law Courts, Freetown, Sierra Leone.  Note the large Union Flag hanging beneath the balcony.  With the Governor are  Vice Admiral A M Peters, CB, DSO,  Flag Officer Commanding West Africa ;  Major General G G Phillips, CB, DSO, MC,  Area Commander, Sierra Leone;  a