The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Discussing pre-war employment; working with Women's Emergency Signalling Corp; joining the WRANS; reaction of males to influx of females to Navy; accommodation at HMAS Harman; training course at Flinders Naval Depot; promotion; post-war marriage.
Part 1 of (WR 4) Denise Culver Johnson (née Owen), Third Officer WRANS, interviewed by Dr Ruth Thompson for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archives of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 2 of (WR 4) Denise Culver Johnson (née Owen), Third Officer WRANS, interviewed by Dr Ruth Thompson for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archives of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 3 of (WR 4) Denise Culver Johnson (née Owen), Third Officer WRANS, interviewed by Dr Ruth Thompson for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archives of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Discussing pre-war employment; work with the Women's Emergency Signalling Corp; training Air Force recruits in morse code; formation of WRANS; joining the WRANS; posting to HMAS Harman; training as wi
Discussing Women's Emergency Signalling Corp; enlistment process; HMAS Harman; gender division of labour in Navy; Molonglo Wireless Station; Australia; Women's Royal Australian Naval Service; telegrap
Discussing pre-war employment; joining the Women's Emergency Signalling Corp; enlisting in the Navy; training at Navy Office, Melbourne; posting to HMAS Harman; leisure in Queanbeyan and Canberra; mee
Discussing pre-war employment as journalist; going to Hong Kong to join husband at outbreak of war; working as part-time cypher assistant with the British Navy and as public relations assistant with t
Discussing pre-war employment; enlistment and training; formation of 53rd Battalion; inadequacy of training period prior to embarkation for New Guinea; arrival in Port Moresby; inadequacy of supplies;
Discussing pre-war employment; enlistment; acceptance into ASDIC; transfer to England and studying radar at Portsmouth; radar appointment to Adelaide; description of sinking of Rameses; intelligence r