The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 28087 Leading Aircraftman Richard Hugh Bell Kearns, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Collection consists of a copy of a personal diary and scrapbook covering Kearns' service in the Solomon Islands on Tulagi as a radio operator with the RAAF Advanced Operational Base Signals Unit. The diary includes regular and descriptive entries of air raids and contact with various coast watchers, and also includes captioned photographs. Within the diary Kearns documents the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbour, and the evacuation of Tulagi and escape to Australia (the unit was evacuated just prior to the Japanese landing in May 1942). The scrapbook portion of the collection contains newspaper cuttings with articles that tell the story of the war in the Pacific and the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 66635 Leading Aircraftman Cecil Richard Henry Evans, Royal Australian Air Force, New Guinea and Australia, 1942-1945. Wallet 1 of 1 – Collection
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 633581 Leading Aircraftman Cecil Duckmanton, No. 457 Squadron, Royal Air Force, 1943-1945. Duckmanton served with the RAF in Australia from 6 Jun
Album containing greeting cards, newspaper cuttings, letters with pressed flowers and butterflies to Roma from her husband, Leading Aircraftman John Phillip Moss, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Ro
Diary written by 124841 Leading Aircraftman, Duncan Stewart, covering service experiences in a RAAF Radar Unit during June 1943 to April 1945.
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 128201 Light Aircraftman Donald Parncutt, 325 Radar Station, RAAF, Australia, 1999. Wallet 1 of 1 - Memoir written by Parnett about his servic
Collection relating to the service of A317919 Leading Aircraftman Andrew James Plunkett, 1 Bomber Operational Command Unit, Royal Australia Air Force. Wallet 1 of 1 - comprises a small bound notebo