Photographs:
Airman Octavius Vermooten
Air Mechanic
Operational service:
4 Squadron, East Africa, North Africa
Credit: thanks to SAAF museum
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Thanks
Tinus le Roux
July 2019
OVC - 4 Sqn Aboukir airfield transit camp Oct 1941
OVC - 4 Sqn about to enter Derna 1941
OVC - 4 Sqn en route Derna on Derna Pass Nov 1941
OVC - 4 Sqn Kittyhawk 250lb bomb 1942
OVC - 4 Sqn Kittyhawk KJ-J shot up LG97 August 1942
OVC - 4 Sqn Kittyhawk western desert 1942
OVC - 4 Sqn Kittyhawk with 250lb bomb 1942
OVC - 4 Sqn LtR Cpl J Sannan Lt McMasters Cpl R Kohler
OVC - 4 Sqn maintenance flight 1942
OVC - 4 Sqn Nairobi Stn
OVC - 4 Sqn pilot outside tent in desert 1942
OVC - 4 Sqn Tomahawk crash land battle damage
OVC - 4 Sqn Tomahawk shot up during Tobruk raid 1941
OVC - 4 Sqn Tomahawk windscreen shot away Nov 41
OVC - 4 Sqn transit camp Aboukir July 1941
OVC - 4 Sqn with Bf109
OVC - 4 Sqn with derelict Ju87
OVC - Air Apprentice Vermooten & Hartbees 1 Tvl Sqn Wklf 1939
OVC - Aussie shark sqn Tomahawk 1942
OVC - Axis aircraft wrecks - El Adem - 1941
OVC - Bf109 unserviceable Cyrenaica 1942
OVC - Bridges dest by retreat Axis Tocra Pass Dec 41
OVC - Cambria Empire flying boat Durban 1939
OVC - Capt McMaster Ops Off with Ju87 nr El Adem 1942
OVC - Capt McMasters Fl Ops with fuel bowser El Adem Dec 41
OVC - Capts McMasters & Moodie LG97 Aug 42
OVC - Fort Capuzzo Egypt & Libya border 1941 advance
OVC - Kittyhawk in desert
OVC - LG97 August 1942 Tomahawk
OVC - Lt A Alder grave near LG101 KIA 12111941
OVC - Lt Kriel & RAF seconded & Capt S Moodie Nov 41
OVC - Mass Kittyhawk take-off 1942
OVC - Mohawk at Nakuru May or June 1941
OVC - Octavius Septamus Vermooten 5 July 1941 East Africa
OVC - OS Vermooten East Africa July 1941
OVC - Poss Gladiator or Gauntlet remains found El Adem 1941
OVC - Unservice RA aircraft dest El Adem 1941
OVC - Vermooten runs up KHawk after maintenance LG97 Aug 42