ZUM4851673: Jun 06, 1953 - Australian Fighter Wing Here for R.A.F. Royal Review. A Royal Australian Air Force Fighter Wing has arrived at the R.A.F. Station, Horsham St. Faith, Norwich, in order to prepare for the Royal Review of the Royal Air Force next month. The Wing (No. 78) is led by Group Captain B.A. Eaton, and is equipped with Vampire Aircraft, which will also take part in current exercises with Royal Air Force Squadrons of Fighter Command. Keystone Photo Shows: - Flying Officer Les Reading, of Perth, Australia, sitting on the wing of a plane, as he goes over a map with Pilot Officer John Jacobs, of Queensland (right), at Horsham St. Faith, Norwich. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4852205: Jun. 06, 1953 - General Ridgway says good-by to Europe: General Matthew Ridgeway, NATO Commander, who is to take over the duties as US Chief of Staff, Bid farewell to Dr. Konrad Adenauer, West Germany's Chancellor, at Bonn, West Germany Yesterday. Picture Shows: Dr. Konrad Adenauer and (right) General Ridgway. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4852357: Jun 06, 1953 - Two-Ton Dicksie the Inquisitive Elephant. Two-ton Dicksie, a 12-year-old African elephant at the London zoo, is just as inquisitive as other little girls. On day she watched with interest the peculiar anti's of her that, when he shut the gate, he twiddle something on the other side. So one night Dicksie decided to do the same. There Was a click, and there in her trunk was a padlock. Dioksie decided to push the gate. It opened, and she strolled out along the public paths munching a hedgerow ot two. She them decided to pay a visit to her friend the gorilla, when along came someone she Recognised -Dicksie's own keeper, who gently taking her tusk led her back to her enclosure / Bridgeman Images