The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Ternate Island, Halmahera Islands. 1945. Members of the Medical Air Evacuation Transport Unit (MAETU) were invited to a luncheon hosted by the Sultan of Ternate. Some of the visiting group consisted of, from left to right: Des Piper, an RAAF pilot; Sister Joan Loutit, Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service (RAAFNS); Sister Colleen Ryan, RAAFNS, and the Sultan of Ternate. The MAETU group flew to Ternate in a Catalina aircraft and were met by the Dutch Administrator's wife, Mrs Van de Hoot. The MAETU members were specially trained in Melbourne in preparation for repatriating prisoners of war and wounded personnel from the islands on the cessation of the war. (Donor C. Capel)
South West Pacific Area. 1945. 500498 Sister Colleen Ryan of the Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service (RAAFNS) preparing a meal on board a Douglas C47 Dakota aircraft while transporting patients
Nurse's white cotton veil embroidered with many coloured signatures of Medical Air Evacuation Transport Unit (MAETU) nurses, pilots and AIF personnel. The key seems to indicate that nurse's signatures
TERNATE ISLAND, HALMAHERA ISLANDS. 1945-11-09. ATTENDED BY AUSTRALIAN FORCES THE SULTAN OF ISKANDAR MUHAMMAD DJABIR, SYAH OF TERNATE MAKES A SPEECH AFTER HIS INAUGURATION. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTIO
TERNATE ISLAND, HALMAHERA ISLANDS. 1945-11-09. AUSTRALIAN FORCES AT THE CEREMONY MARKING THE INSTALLATION OF THE SULTAN OF ISKANDAR MUHAMMAD DJABIR, SYAH OF TERNATE AFTER THE JAPANESE SURRENDER. (NAVA
LAE, NEW GUINEA. WW2. MEMBERS OF FIRST MEDICAL AIR EVACUATION UNIT. BACK ROW, FROM LEFT: SISTER CHICK SHEA; SENIOR SISTER BETTY SMITH; SISTER TESS DU MOULIN; SISTER MASON. FRONT ROW: SISTER COLLEEN RY
LAE, NEW GUINEA. WW2. SISTER COLLEEN RYAN (R) AND SISTER MOLLY GOBBARD (L) OF THE FIRST MEDICAL AIR EVACUATION TRANSPORT UNIT (NO. 1 MAETU) IN TROPICAL UNIFORM.
