The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Trincomalee; tanker, anti-aircraft, refuelling; British Merchant Navy; unidentified soldiers watching refuelling operations; Shell Company tanker Scalantor, part of upper deck of SS Queen Elizabeth (being refuelled), SS Aquitania at anchor and flying a kite from its main mast as anti-aircraft protection (against dive bombers)
HMT "Queen Mary" and HMT "Queen Elizabeth" transports at anchor together at Trincomalee. A call for oil and water during the trip from Australia to the Middle East. The escorting cruiser HMAS "Austral
SS Aquitania seen from SS Queen Elizabeth, converted Ocean liners taking New Zealand (Aquitania) and Australian (QE) troops to the Middle East, docking bridge of Queen Elizabeth is at right, anti-airc
John Reid took this film in 1941 while serving as a Seaman ASDIC operator with HMAS Napier which was then part of the 7th Destroyer Flotilla British Mediterranean Fleet. On leave in Cairo showing the
The fencing and cabling is made up of four 1420mm long and three 1115mm long grey metal poles. The poles are 50mm in diameter. Each pole is secured to a metal bracket at its base which is then bolted
On 8 October 1940 HMAS Sydney sailed with the fleet for operation M.B.6 covering a Malta convoy. Whilst the destroyers in rotation fueled in Malta, HMAS Sydney was detached which was unfortunate that
Scene 1 17-26 A U S Army U21, Ute, electronic battlefield surveillance aircraft taxiing out from the refuelling point at Luscombe Airfield, Niu Dat, Vietnam. Australian Pilatus Porter aircraft in
