The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A Liberator aircraft of the 20th Combat Mapping Squadron, 6th Photo Mapping Group, 5th USAAF. The F-7A with the nose art "Bourbon Boxcar", Serial # 42-73078 is parked on the Tadji airstrip. Bourbon Boxcar was F-7A serial # 42-73078, one of the original F-7As assigned to the New Guinea theatre. The unit was deployed to New Guinea in early 1944, arriving as the first multi-engined reconnaissance unit assigned to the Fifth USAAF. Their F-7A Liberators were factory-converted in Minnesota by adding two 600-gallon fuel tanks, securely bolted into the forward bomb bay. The rear bomb bay was equipped with three 'Tri-metrogon' 2x18-inch cameras. For oblique perspectives, other cameras of varying size were positioned throughout the aircraft's nose, removing the bomb racks and adding two fuel tanks in the forward bomb bay. The aft bomb bay was converted to a photographic compartment with mounts and windows for two vertical reconnaissance cameras. Three mapping cameras, in a trimetrogon array, were mounted in the nose to provide horizon-to-horizon photographic coverage.
Group of miniature medals for 1939-45 Star, Pacific Star, British War Medal 1939-45 and Australia Service Medal. Unnamed as issued. Associated with 422085 Flight Lieutenant John William Shipman. Shi
Silver trophy cup mounted on fluted brown bakelite base. The cup has thin handles rising up and out from each side and a raised decorative edge encircling the cup close to the lip. The front is engrav
Metal photograph frame with decorative edging and the emblem of the Royal Australian Air Force attached to the centre of the top edge. The emblem consists of a winged wreath with the letters 'RAAF' su
Salt and Pepper cruet set. The shakers are made from .50 calibre Browning machine gun cartridge cases. The primers of the shells have been replaced with a screw closure and holes have been drilled int
An unidentified group of RAAF aircrew who comprised the crew of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft in a RAAF Squadron. They are shown during a visit to the 380th Bomb Group, USAAF, and were
MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-04-26. FORWARD FUSELAGE VIEW OF A BOEING B-29 SUPERFORTRESS BOMBER/F-13 STRATEGIC RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT OF THE US STRATEGIC BOMBER FORCE ON
Two unidentified men on bicycles pose in front of a United States Army Air Force (USAAF) B-24 D Liberator bomber, from 400th Squadron, of the 90th Bomb Group, 5th Air Force, USAAF. This aircraft has
MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-04-26. A BOEING B-29 SUPERFORTRESS BOMBER/F-13 STRATEGIC RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT, SERIAL NO. 42-24621, AIRCRAFT CODE F, OF THE US STRATEGIC BO
MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-04-26. A BOEING B-29 SUPERFORTRESS BOMBER/F-13 STRATEGIC RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT OF THE US STRATEGIC BOMBER FORCE ON THE AIRFIELD, FIN SERIAL
MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-04-26. CREW MEMBERS STAND BEHIND THE TAIL AREA OF A BOEING B-29 SUPERFORTRESS/F-13 STRATEGIC RECONNAISSANCE BOMBER AIRCRAFT OF THE US STRATEGI
