The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The capital city Control Room of the Volunteer Air Observers Corps (VAOC) where movements of all aircraft in the area are plotted and watched, being manned on this occasion by WAAAF personnel. This Operations Room was many feet under the city and received reports of aircraft sightings or sound plots telephoned through twenty four hours a day from VAOC observation posts in a large area. (Copy in album presented to Dr Edith Summerskill, p.63, housed in the AWM Archive Store).
c. 1944. A member of the Volunteer Air Observers Corps (VAOC) plots on a gridded table in a country control post the course of planes reported to them from sightings from an observation posts in the a
Victoria. C. 1943. The Volunteer Air Observers Corps (VAOC) Control Centre in a country town. This Control Centre is staffed by volunteers and received reports day and night from all observation posts
TWO WOMEN MEMBERS OF THE VOLUNTEER AIR OBSERVERS CORPS (VAOC) ON DUTY AT AN OBSERVATION POST, OF WHICH THERE WERE ABOUT 2800 THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA. ALL AIRCRAFT HEARD OR SEEN WERE REPORTED TO THE RAAF
Elevated view of members of the Volunteer Air Observers Corps (VAOC) manning the big operations table at the RAAF Air Defence Headquarters (HQ) at Preston Town Hall. Specially trained civilians of the
Victoria. C. 1943. A member of the Volunteer Air Observers Corps (VAOC) adjusts her binoculars to study a passing aircraft. Such women were typical of VAOC members and were responsible for most of the
Victoria. C. 1943. A Volunteer Air Observers Corps (VAOC) observation post situated on the roof of a country butter factory. Such posts were established approximately ten miles apart, in an elevated p
