A continental-size colour military aviation postcard showing two Royal Air Force Westland Wessex HC2 helicopters of No. 72 Squadron, coded AV and wearing green and grey camouflage with RAF roundels, flying low over a dry Turkish village landscape. Below them are dirt tracks, haystacks, red-roofed houses, a minaret and small groups of onlookers, and a crewman can be seen at the open cabin door of the nearer helicopter, serial XR506.The back carries the printed caption P75, Westland Wessex HC2, describing its troop transport and aeromedical role with twin Bristol Siddeley Gnome turboshaft engines, and identifying XR506 and XR498 of No. 72 Squadron during the Deep Express NATO exercises in Turkey on September 11, 1975, Crown Copyright Ministry of Defence. It bears the After the Battle logo and London imprint, with a note that After the Battle is a quarterly publication presenting WWII then-and-now photographs. The address side is blank.Period: circa 1978 (photograph September 1975).Publisher / series: After the Battle, London - card P75, Crown Copyright Ministry of Defence photoPostally used: No, unused and unaddressedCondition: Very good; clean image, sharp corners, no creases or writing visible.Reference : 20261005-3-09539-66/100
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