The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
1943? NIGHT SCENE IN A COUNTRY OBSERVATION POST OF THE VOLUNTEER AIR OBSERVER CORPS (VAOC). HUSBAND AND WIFE SIGNED UP THE LOG BOOK ON BEGINNING THEIR TOUR OF DUTY AND THEN LISTENED FOR THE SOUND OF AIRCRAFT, REPORTING ALL THEY HEARD TO THE RAAF. WHEN THEIR SHIFT WAS OVER, THEY WERE RELIEVED BY OTHER OBSERVERS FOR THE POST WAS STAFFED RIGHT ROUND THE CLOCK. MANY CIVILIANS IN RESERVED OCCUPATIONS CHEERFULLY VOLUNTEERED FOR THIS WORK, WHICH MADE POSSIBLE ASSISTANCE FOR MORE THAN 1000 FRIENDLY AIRCRAFT DURING ONE PERIOD OF TEN MONTHS.
North Qld. C. 1943. Group portrait on the occasion when two members of the RAAF flew in by a De Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth aircraft to visit a bush hospital to establish a reporting post for the Volun
Victoria. C. 1943. Two elderly members of the Volunteer Air Observers Corps (VAOC) testing their knowledge in aircraft recognition with the aid of silhouette cards supplied by the RAAF. Aircraft recog
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
C. 1943. A country control centre of the Volunteer Air Observers Corps (VAOC) showing volunteers plotting movements of aircraft and reporting (telling) them through to the RAAF.
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
Victoria. C. 1943. A country member of the Volunteer Air Observers Corps (VAOC) uses binoculars to report the movement of all aircraft seen or heard from his lonely farm.
