Extremely Rare WW2 Signed Autographed Photo by RAAF Air Ace Kieth William "Bluey" Truscott, DFC & Bar

Approx 210x 160 mm Official Press Release Photo go Truscotts Kitty Hawk at Milne Bay, New Guinea, in September 1942. Hand signed in the bottom right hand corner.

Together with another wartime photograph of the squadron ( presumably No. 76 Squadron with Truscott seated in the middle front row. Approx 245 x 130 mm.


Keith William "Bluey" Truscott, DFC & Bar (17 May 1916 – 28 March 1943) was a World War II ace fighter pilot and Australian rules footballer with the Melbourne Football Club. After joining the Royal Australian Air Force in 1940, he became the second-highest-scoring Australian World War II ace, credited with 20 confirmed victories and 5 unconfirmed victories.


After completing flying training in Canada, Truscott served in Britain flying Spitfire fighters. He returned to Australia in early 1942 and served in New Guinea, where he fought during the climactic Battle of Milne Bay. He was killed in a joint Australian–US training exercise off the coast of Western Australia in March 1943, aged 26.

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