The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
TACLOBAN, LEYTE ISLAND, PHILIPPINES. 1944-10. UNIT NO 1 WIRELESS UNIT RAAF SECONDED DIRECTLY TO GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR'S STAFF FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE PHILIPPINES AND COMMANDED BY MAJOR GENERAL SPENCER B AKIN, CHIEF SIGNALS OFFICER, ALLIED FORCES, PACIFIC. LEYTE BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOLS WERE USED FOR A SHORT PERIOD BY GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR'S INTELLIGENCE STAFF AND SOME INTERCEPT MESSAGES WERE DECODED HERE BEFORE DELIVERY TO GENERAL HEADQUARTERS. NOTE CAMPSITE OUT FRONT. (DONOR A.J. BROWN)
TACLOBAN, LEYTE ISLAND, PHILIPPINES. 1944-10. UNIT NO 1 WIRELESS UNIT RAAF SECONDED DIRECTLY TO GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR'S STAFF FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE PHILIPPINES AND COMMANDED BY MAJOR GENERAL S
TACLOBAN, LEYTE ISLAND, PHILIPPINES. 1944-10-22. UNIT NO 1 WIRELESS UNIT RAAF SECONDED DIRECTLY TO GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR'S STAFF FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE PHILIPPINES AND COMMANDED BY MAJOR GENERA
INLAND FROM TACLOBAN, LEYTE ISLAND, PHILIPPINES. 1944-10. UNIT NO 1 WIRELESS UNIT RAAF WAS SECONDED DIRECTLY TO GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR'S STAFF FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE PHILIPPINES WHICH BEGAN ON 1
TOLOSA, LEYTE ISLAND, PHILIPPINES, 1945-01. UNIT NO 6 WIRELESS UNIT RAAF. THE CAMP SITE AND OPERATING AREA WERE AT THE BASE OF THIS HILL. AERIALS NEAR ITS TOP WERE HIDDEN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. NOTE A T
TOLOSA, LEYTE ISLAND, PHILIPPINES, 1945-01. UNIT NO 6 WIRELESS UNIT RAAF. THIS TWO-STOREY BUILDING WAS USED FOR A SHORT TIME AS A DECODING AND CODE-BREAKING CENTRE FOR JAPANESE KANA WIRELESS INTERCEPT
Leyte Island, Philippines. T4 Docie Kaiser of West Virginia (left) and T4 Martha White of Tallahassee, Florida, get to work on their slit-trench as a safety precaution from air raids. These girls were
