The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
AUSTRALIA AT WAR. WOODEN BOATS FOR USE BY THE U.S. FORCES IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ARE BEING MANUFACTURED IN THE PRE- WAR TENNIS RACQUET SECTION OF A N.S.W. FACTORY. THE HENRY KAISER PRINCIPLE OF BUILDING SHIPS UPSIDE DOWN IS IN USE IN THIS FACTORY. THIS PICTURE SHOWS A GENERAL VIEW OF SECTION OF THE FACTORY. A NUMBER OF BOATS NEARING COMPLETION ARE SHOWN. (NEGATIVE BY MCNEIL).
AUSTRALIA AT WAR. THIS PICTURE SHOWS A GENERAL VIEW OF THE INSPECTION SECTION. THE "LINE" PRINCIPLE OF INSPECTION IS USED, EACH GIRL EXAMINING THE BUTTS CHECKS A DIFFERENT MEASUREMENT. (NEGATIVE BY RE
AMERICAN FIGHTER SQUADRONS IN AUSTRALIA ARE RAPIDLY GROWING IN STRENGTH AND REPUTATION. THIS PICTURE SHOWS A NOVEL DEMONSTRATION FLIGHT WITH THE AIRCRAFT FORMING THE INITIALS U.S. (NEGATIVE BY MCNEIL)
AUSTRALIA AT WAR. THIS PICTURE SHOWS A VIEW OF THE PRODUCTION LINE WITH SEVERAL OF THE BOATS IN THE COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION. (NEGATIVE BY MCNEIL).
Canberra, Australia. July 1942. US nurses with full equipment (including a tennis racquet) are farewelled at Canberra station as they depart for war zones in the north. The gentleman in the rain coat
Boats are being constructed in a New South Wales shipyard, for use by the US Forces in the Southwest Pacific. Prior to the war the shipyard was a motor car factory. Two thirds of the "tradesmen" are w
Launching by means of a mobile crane, a vessel built by Slazenger's, on the outbreak of war, converted from a tennis racquet makers to the builders of small ships and the craft they built had to be tr