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Click on a description to see an image in a new window. I have arranged the pictures within each section in roughly chronological order except for the people and places, which are alphabetical.

Aircraft

Avia S-199

• 101 Squadron's - and Israel's - first air-to-air kill.
• A picture taken late May or early June of an aircraft numbered between D-101 and D-105, inclusive. Note the small fuselage roundel.
• Lou Lenart, Giddy Lichtman, and Modi Alon pose with the same small-roundeled S-199.
• And here's Giddy on a bright, glossy new one.
• D-107, and another, sometime before receiving squadron badges.
• D-123, lacking a squadron badge, which is odd for a plane delivered as late as it should have been.
• A photo of the remains of D-110 that appeared in the Egyptian newspaper "Al-Aharam" on January 2, 1949.
• D-120 ready to roll (taken fall 1948, and probably the most famous S-199 photo of them all).
• Great view of the gear, gear bay, bomb rack and huge prop of an S-199.
• D-124 crashed by Wayne Peake.
• S-199 at the IAF Museum 1 (Serge Batoussov).
• S-199 at the IAF Museum 2 (Serge Batoussov).
• S-199 at the IAF Museum 3 (R.J. Goldman).
• S-199 at the IAF Museum 4 (different photographer; sadly, I forget who).
• Yet another anonymous (sorry!) photo of the IAF Museum's Avia.
• A plastic model of D-120 in RLM 02 paint.
• Illustration of D-120 in RLM 02 (Peter Willowood).
• Roy Grinnell's "Strange Encounter".
• Box art from Hobbycraft's Israeli S-199.

P-51D Mustang

• Giddy Lichtman exits D-191 during its initial testing at 101 Squadron.
• Zulu taxies. This aircraft is often called "Zul" by mistake but this close-up photo shows the second, faded "u". The u-shape below the Z may be a poor rendition of the squadron's Angel of Death badge.
• Jack Cohen flies a P-51D in 1950.
• Here is a second version of that same picture, showing that the first one, though more refined, has some detail electronically airbrushed out.
• P-51D at IAF Museum 1 (not in reality one of the 101's original two; Serge Batoussov).
• P-51D at IAF Museum 2 (Serge Batoussov).

Spitfire

• Spitfire Mk V, 2 Sqn SAAF.
• Jack Cohen on a 4 Sqn SAAF Mk IX.
• The REAF Mk Vc that supplied the fuel booster pump for D-130.
• The REAF Mk Vc that Modi Alon shot down July 18, 1948.
• D-130: an illustration, and a poor one at that.
• Velvetta 1 Spitfires at Niksic without roundels.
• Velvetta 1 Spitfire, showing extra fuel tanks and something written on the side.
• Velvetta 1 Spitfires over the Mediterranean.
• Front quarter view of Black 10 beneath trees at Herzliya.
• Black 10 at Chatzor (I think).
• Black 10: a mediocre illustration.
• White 17 and White 18 escort a B-17, January 1949.
• An illustration of White 15 (from Spitfire: The Canadians).
• An illustration of White 14 in War of Independence livery (Spitfire: Star of Israel).
• Red and White 14's end. It blew a tire while landing and flipped.
• A great big illustration of White 17 in post-war colors (Spitfire: Star of Israel).
• IAF Museum White 26 (Serge Batoussov) with inset photo of the original. Note the differing camo pattern above the roundel.
• Second view of the museum's White 26 (Serge Batoussov).
• A third shot of the IAF Museum White 26, but taken outside (Oren Rozen). Look at how different the colors here look compared to Serge's photos.
• An abandoned Spitfire LF9 somewhere in Israel, 1994 (Dean Wingrin). I would love to know its manufacturer number.

Other aircraft

• A photo of 101 Squadron's runabout Seabee.
• Perhaps that same SeaBee, now in the IAF Museum, although the real B-61 lacked outrigger pontoons, at least occasionally.
• Three AT-6s from 35 Flight.
• A C-46 over Tel Aviv.
• A C-46 over Haifa.
• Two Norsemen in Israeli colors.
• 101 Squadron Mirage III at the IAF museum (13 kills!). This is not the actual aircraft (number 159) that made the 13 kills, which was sold to Argentina in the early 1980s. The Mirage in the photo is number 111, itself a killer of five MiGs, which was painted as 159 for the museum exhibit.
• Close-up of the Mirage III's kill markings and squadron badge.
• 101 Squadron today: a two-seat F-16 from 101 Squadron heads for the skies.

People

• 101 Squadron group photo (July or August 1948). A second photo was taken, as well.
• Modi Alon in the RAF.
• Modi Alon leans against the massive propeller of a S-199.
• Modi Alon thinks about something or other at a table in a cinderblock building.
• A head shot of Stan Andrews.
• Syd Antin in D-108, summer 1948.
• Syd Antin on a mule, in front of another.
• Syd Antin centers a five-pilot briefing.
• Rudy Augarten in a P-47 during World War II.
• Rudy Augarten poses in front of a S-199, and off to its side.
• Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion visits Netanya, a group shot (August 17, 1948).
• Ben-Gurion meets a different subset of pilots.
• George Beurling chalks up another (close-up). Here's a wider-angle view of the same photograph.
• George Beurling's fatal crash.
• George Beurling's funeral.
• George Beurling's Mount Carmel grave.
• Eddie Cohen, in a photo I slightly altered to remove signs of damage.
• Jack Cohen, Bob Dawn, Sam Pomerance, and Dave Panner in Czechoslovakia, September, 1948.
• Jack Cohen, truck driver, in the Western Desert of North Africa, 1941.
• Jack Cohen in flight training, World War II (with a Tiger Moth).
• Jack Cohen, Czechoslovakia, 1948.
• Jack Cohen in Israeli "flying gear", posing with a Spitfire (three photos).
• Syd Cohen and 4 Sqn SAAF companions during WWII. Yowsa, check out that beard!
• Syd Cohen in front of a S-199. The facial hair has by now been trimmed to a moustache.
• Syd, Giddy, Modi, Ezer, and Arnie.
• Red Finkel, Syd Antin, and crew looking no worse for wear after jail in Italy.
• Red, a pipe, and a Mule. He's wearing one of the 101's famous red baseball caps.
• Red in a Spitfire with the mountains of central Europe in the background.
• Mitchell Flint with a post-war Mustang.
• Leon Frankel.
• Gebor the horse and pals.
• Slick Goodlin and his Bell X-1.
• Slick Goodlin and Lee Sinclair (with a great S-199 close-up).
• A head shot Gordon Levett while in Israeli service.
• George Lichter and one of his June 1948 classes at Ceske Budejovice, with another shot of the same.
• A rare shot of Lichter in Israel, as he poses on a jeep with several other 101 pilots (August 1948).
• Giddy Lichtman, Bill Pomerantz, and Leon Frankel with a S-199. A second photo was taken a few moments before or after.
• Giddy and a gang of 101 pilots pose with a woman on Netanya's beach.
• Chris Magee poses with Black Sheep Squadron, USMC in 1944.
• Chris Magee and David Ben-Gurion (you know the date by now, no?).
• John McElroy in World War II.
• John McElroy poses in flight suit and Mae West in Israel.
• John McElroy on a Velvetta 2 Spitfire, Virginia XII.
• John McElroy inspects his damaged Spitfire's propeller and tail (damaged January 7, 1949).
• Maury Mann shows off his flight gear.
• Wayne Peake sits in a S1-99 and an unidentified (yet) pilot stands by Black 10.
• Wayne Peake flips the bird while (L to R) Jack Cohen, Denny Wilson, and Lee Sinclair behave (spring 1949).
• Bill Pomerantz is flanked by Maury Mann and Syd Antin.
• Bob Vickman boards a Ryan open-cockpit two-seater.
• Ezer Weizman, Maury Mann, and Syd Antin give a debrief to Modi.
• The handsome Denny Wilson.
• Denny out on the town with Wayne Peake (second man from right), two unidentified men, and three lovely ladies.
• A small group shot of pilots with a S-199 in early August, 1948.
• A group shot from March 1949, signed by the pilots.

Places

• RAF Ramat David, early 1948.
• Damage resulting from the May 18 bombing of Tel Aviv.

Miscellany

• The Israeli army's 1948 Christmas greeting.
• Jack Cohen's Velvetta 2 debrief.
• Denny Wilson's flight log for December 1948.