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To provide the vast numbers required, other
big firms such as Fairchild also manufactured
the camera and timer assembly. One of the
many fighter aircraft fitted with the G.S.A.P
16 mm camera was the US built ‘Corsair’.
(Pic. 8.)

Placing the camera back in its substantial
grey wooden case and closing the lid, I
thought to myself, “This is one camera you
certainly WOULDN’T want to be in front of
when it was employed for it’s original pur-
pose!” (Pic. 9.)
Pic. 8. A U.S Marines ‘Corsair’.
Below: War surplus advertisement for the camera - 1947

Above: Pic. 7. The overrun timer
box. Two Cannon sockets and tog-
gle switch to right.
Below: Pic. 9. Actual positive print-
ed frames from a WW 2 pilot’s
G.S.A.P camera.

This article first appeared in Back Focus, the journal of the Aus-
tralian Photographic Collectors’ Society Inc. It is reproduced
with the permission of the author and the Back Focus editor.
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