The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-04-21. 29482 CORPORAL NEIL BURROWS OF MT MAGNET, WA, FITTER MECHANIC, IS INSTALLING THE ELECTRIC HEAD WHICH GOVERNS THE PITCH OF THE PROPELLER ON ONE OF THE FOUR ENGINES OF A A LIBERATOR AIRCRAFT OF NO. 82 WING RAAF IN THE HALMAHERAS. THE PROPELLERS FITTED TO ALLIED AIRCRAFT TODAY ARE ONE OF THE MAJOR AERO-ENGINEERING TRIUMPHS OF THE WAR.
MOROTAI ISLAND, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-04-20. 74925 LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN J. HOOWORTH OF SYDNEY, NSW, CARRIES OUT A DAILY INSPECTION OF ONE OF THE FOUR MOTORS OF A B24, THE LIB
MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-04-21. PERCHED HIGH ON THE TOP OF A RAAF LIBERATOR AIRCRAFT, THE MID-UPPER GUNNER HAS AMPLE VISION TO SEARCH THE SKY FOR LURKING JAPANESE FIGH
MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-04-21. WHILST BOMBING JAPANESE OIL INSTALLATIONS ON THE ISLAND OF TARAKAN, ON THE EASTERN COAST OF BORNEO, THIS LIBERATOR BOMBER AIRCRAFT OF N
72129 Leading Aircraftsman Ken M. Owen of Dubbo, NSW, Fitter Armourer, finds that he has to be something of a contortionist to make adjustments to the ball turret of a Liberator Bomber Aircraft of No.
MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. C. 1945-01-25. 19233 FLIGHT SERGEANT ARTHUR TAYLOR, ALBURY, NSW (LEFT) AND 68645 LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN GEOFF CAMBRIDGE, MAROUBRA, NSW, COMBINED TO BE
MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-01-18. THIS IS AN ALL-SOUTH AUSTRALIAN TEAM FOR THIS SPITFIRE AIRCRAFT OF NO. 452 SQUADRON RAAF OPERATING FROM MOROTAI IN THE HALMAHERAS. SHOW
