Part 2. (Part 1 was here.)
[photos by Dimitris Harissiadis (1911-1993) - vaccination in the late ’40s in Greece by Swedish & Danish Red Cross personnel]
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[photo by Dimitris Harissiadis (1911-1993) - vaccination in the late ’40s in Greece by personnel of the Swedish Red Cross]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/f7d4c8803410f14a61936c29975e9ad5/b64453b2457012c1-7a/s500x750/0f9780e3ab82c412644835ddc5085fa51c05d60a.jpg)
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[photo by Dimitris Harissiadis (1911-1993) - vaccination in the late ’40s in Greece by personnel of the Swedish Red Cross]
North American AT-6D c/n 88-17447, s/n 42-85666 operated by the Chinese airline CATC (Central Air Transport Corporation), circa 1948. (source: UN Archives, S-0801-0007-0001-00003).
The original caption reads: “CNRRA-UNRRA cholera vaccine is rushed aboard a CHT AT6 plane at Lunghwa for shipment to Chengchow, Honan, where the supply of UNRRA vaccine has been exhausted by mass inoculations in Chengchow and vicinity.”
I found this photo while browsing through the UN Archives, in preparation of a couple of articles I’m working on, regarding the relief and rehabilitation (nowadays we would say: humanitarian) efforts in the aftermath of WWII - and it immediately struck me as something strangely resonating with today’s issues… and as an image of hope. Let’s hope 2021 would be a better, healthier year for everyone around the world.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Death of a 1930s airport hangar…
From top to bottom:
1-3. This particular aircraft hangar was built on the island of Corfu in the early 1930s by the French company AULO / Air Orient, a precursor of Air France, to shelter their flying boats, then in service in their Eastern Med routes (see pic 1) [Andreas Stamatopoulos / Nikos Desyllas / Grelicks collection]
4. In February 1949, the hangar was dismantled, brought to Athens and set up again at Hassani/Ellinikon airport. [Andreas Stamatopoulos / Grelicks collection]
5. It was initially used by TAE, a precursor of Olympic Airways [from I. Theologis’s book]
6. Said hangar in the late 1950s or early 1960s [photo: Megalokonomou, Grelicks collection] Please note that the other hangar, on the right (pics 6 & 7), was also brought dismantled to Athens from the island of Rhodes, in the early 1950s: it was most probably a WWII Italian military hangar…
7-8. Said hangar(s) in 1982, photographed by the late Andreas Stamatopoulos [Grelicks collection].
9. Last photo by Grelicks, August 2018.
10. Now you see them… now you don’t… (Ηλία, ρίχ’ το….) [photo source: anagennisipolkeoa FB ]
Lamda Development and your supporters (Άδωνις, Καθημερινή κτλ.), I admit I personally and respectfully have a very precise idea where I would like you to stick your “development plans” (casinos, malls etc…)…
UP YOURS!
To the Anon that just sent me this 1946 article about AMFOGE (see relevant posts here and here): thanks!
There’s also the above British Pathé newsreel available on Youtube…
Take care - thanks again.
A HAF Canadair CL-215 firefighting aircraft in a b&w photo taken by my late father, T.K., with his trustful Kiev camera, apparently in the late ’70s.
The first CL-215s entered service with the HAF in 1973 and, although in 1999 the newer turboprop CL-415s came to strengthen the Greek firefighting aerial fleet, some of the original 215s, with their WWII radial engines are still in service, doing their best every summer.
I have some twenty photos like this, taken in my childhood by my father, myself or even my younger brother: in other words, a wildfire, followed by the spectacular aerial ballet of the Canadairs, was more or less a permanent feature of summer vacations. The deep sound of their old piston engines was and still is a reassuring sign that help was/is on its way.
Alas, yesterday’s tragedy was not avoided.
On board a riverboat… somewhere in Germany, in the 1930s… – or so I understand.
This comes from a little photo album of an unnamed German family, containing some 45 snapshots from the 1930s. Printed mostly on Agfa Lupex paper, some on Agfa Brovira; a few of them (not this one) were printed at a photo lab in Dresden.
The entire album (along with some other goodies) was a recent magnificent gift from my good friend Martin @45fthc
– vielen Dank mein Freund! :)
No need to elaborate, is there? This comes from the same lot of photos as this one – but that’s a different girl. The plane is a post-war Cub variant, and that’s probably the late ’40s or early ’50s. (eBay purchase, Grelicks collection.)
Enjoy your Sunday!
One ride in an airplane will sell you on aviation for the rest of your life… July 23, 1921. Someone’s mother (”mother” handwritten affectionately on the back at a later date) posing in front of the Curtiss Jenny biplane of a barnstormer offering joyrides. Photo printed by Mlinar’s Picture Shop, Greene, Iowa. (eBay purchase, Grelicks collection.)
Bonnie & Albert… More of the Piper Cub and beautiful ladies series… :P This is again a standard
Piper J-3 Cub. (eBay purchase, Grelicks collection.)
