The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 drogue (target) can be seen already on the circuit, at top of picture, MacDonald, Manitoba, Canada. 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 operations 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.
Snow covered roads, bare trees and fuel car siding at No.18 Service Flying Training School are typical of many Canadian Air Stations under wintry conditions. Royal Australian Air Force trainees under
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 pilot is a member of the Royal Australian Air Force training under the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) in Canada. Roominess is not a feature of the Harvard's cockpit, but a comfortable feeling o
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
A view of the jetty, unloading stores and equipment, Port Moresby. Ralph Malcolm Warner (1902-1966) was appointed Official War Artist in 1943, covering the activities of the RAAF in Canada, United Sta
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
