The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Wings Parade, Course 100, at No.3 Service Flying Training School, Calgary, Alberta. The School is operated under the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) and course 100, which was the first to occupy 28 weeks instead of the usual 20, contained 45 Royal Australian Air Force trainees out of a total of 50 students. Ralph Malcolm Warner (1902-1966) was appointed Official War Artist in 1943, covering the activities of the RAAF in Canada, United States and the Bahamas. His first mission was in Papua New Guinea recording Australian operation against the Japanese. In 1945 Warner continued to work as a war artist recording civil and industrial war efforts and food production in areas of New South Wales and Victoria. After the war he returned to commercial art, designing posters, murals and postage stamps and illustrating books.
Personnel from the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) undergoing training at No. 3 Service Flying Training School, Calgary, Alberta, within a few miles of the famed Canadian Rockies, the mountains in t
A familiar sight to many trainee pilots of the Royal Australian Air Force completing their service flying training of No.3 Service Flying Training School under the Empire Air Training Scheme, Alberta,
The Chinook is a warm wind which periodically blows over the Rockies and rapidly raises the temperature, melting the snow in a few days. The warm wind pushes back the cold air and snow cloud and forms
Depicts members of the 8th Operational Training Unit undertaking night flying training exercises with the co-operation of searchlights operated by RAAF personnel. This was part of the Empire Air Trai
Avro Anson trainers being flown by RAAF personnel near the Canadian Rockies, a short distance from Calgary. Ralph Malcolm Warner was appointed Official War Artist in 1943, covering the activities of t
A Bolingbroke aircraft taking off for gunnery practice at No.3 Bombing and Gunnery School where Australian trainees are in training under the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS). The plane towing the dr