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My aircraft type knowledge between the wars is fair at best. I can't make this one out. Looks to be a hulk of a larger commonwealth type being used as cover during WWII?

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I believe it's French.
My guess is a Farman.

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Yep! that would make sense as well.

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Wonder what the set up is? Field Kitchen? Laundry?

Perhaps Bloch MB.200?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloch_MB. ... MB.200.png

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Dan K, I think you nailed it !! Look at the vertical stabilizer, the ribds seem an exact match to the Bloch MB.200

I was thinking Humbly Pudge Gallipoli, but I was way off. I think Dan's got t!

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Field kitchen. That's a GI issue oven/range at the back of the tent, mermite containers on the table (the ottoman looking things) immediately to the left of the LT (the LT on the left is holding one of the three inserts that goes into the container). Note a mixture of fuel and water jerry cans in a row.
Lots of QMC-issued cookware in the background, too.

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That is a pretty good-sized hole in the wing!

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Have you noticed that there appear to be three of those aircraft? The nose of the second one is just behind the rudder of the main aircraft, and the forward turret of a third aircraft is just in front of the vertical stabilizer.

Marcel Bloch MB-200 twin engine bomber. And yes, it was definitely ugly

This may have solved part of a mystery for me. Take a look at this still I pulled from the 1958 film China Doll:

Stock footage from somewhere - not China, but where? Check out what's on the far left:

Another MB-200, maybe active?

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