The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 TO KEEP A CHECK ON THEIR MOVEMENTS AND ENABLE THEM TO BE AIDED IF IN DISTRESS. (COPY IN ALBUM PRESENTED TO DR EDITH SUMMERSKILL P.61)
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 Op
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
c.1944. A woman member of the Volunteer Air Observers Corps (VAOC) stands at the top of a flight of steps to greet two other female members of the Corps who have come to relieve her at the country obs
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
Women members of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) working in a blood bank. (Copy in album presented to Dr Edith Summerskill p.139)
Melbourne, Vic. C. 1944. Two WAAAF aircraftwomen who work on important medical statistics which enable the Medical Services of the RAAF to keep an effective check on disease and sickness throughout th
