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Pilot Officer John Gorton, 1941 [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription and acquisition documentation, see file NLA09/78.; Part of the John Grey Gorton collection, 1912-1941.; Inscriptions: "Pilot Officer John Gorton 1941"--In pencil on verso; Photographers stamp on verso.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4632305
John Grey Gorton just prior to leaving for active service, 1941 [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription and acquisition documentation, see file NLA09/78.; Part of the John Grey Gorton collection, 1912-1941.; Inscriptions: "Sievers-Clary 1941"--In white ink lower right corner; "John Grey Gorton 1941 just prior to leaving for active service"--In pencil mount; Photographers stamp on verso.; Condition: Small spots of emulsion missing, silvering, mount yellowing, torn top left and stained.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4632310
Moya Beaver in costume for Funny side up for J.C. Williamson, 1941 [picture] /
No full textCondition: Good; creases and drawing pin indentations and holes in corners.; Part of collection: Collection of portraits of Moya Beaver, 1935-1941.; "Moya Beaver, Funny side up, J.C.W. 1941"--Handwritten on verso.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24665616
Roger McDonald, author in the caravan [picture] /
No full text(PIC/3034/28); Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an14517845-28
Fran and Eileen, 1941 [picture]
No full textIn album: Cyril Ritchard album of film stills and theatrical performance and personal photographs, 1910-1941.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3666366-s47-b1; Purchased 2005
Mother and Ethel, 1941 [i.e. Margaret Trimnell-Ritchard and Ethel Goldrick] [picture]
No full textIn album: Cyril Ritchard album of film stills and theatrical performance and personal photographs, 1910-1941.; Ethel Goldrick was Cyril Ritchard's sister.; Title devised by cataloguer from caption on sheet and reference sources.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3666366-s47-a1; Purchased 2005
A critical analysis of the Royal Air Force air superiority campaign in India, Burma and Malaya, 1941-1945
Get PDFA thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.The conflict in the Far East between 1941 and 1945 is occasionally referred to as the “Forgotten War” in Britain and this description extends to the way the campaign’s air war has been analysed. However, the role of air power in Burma was vitally important to the campaign, in particular the attainment of air superiority in order to facilitate supply and close support operations. The foundation of these operations was dependent on the Allies achieving and maintaining air superiority and latterly air supremacy over the Japanese. This thesis will analyse how the Allies lost air superiority during the initial exchanges, and then how technical and material difficulties were overcome before air superiority was won in 1944 and air supremacy was gained in 1945. It will analyse the importance of the RAF’s tactics, early warning systems, equipment, training and counter-air offensive in the theatre between 1941 and 1945. Furthermore, the thesis will demonstrate how Japanese industry, their war in the Pacific, and their use of air power in Burma ultimately affected the air war’s eventual outcome. The study will examine current historiography to question and corroborate existing views, as well as to reveal new information not previously published
The Ambon Forward Observation Line Strategy 1941-1942 A Lesson in Military Incompetence
Get PDFIn October 1940 and in February 1941, the Australian Chiefs of Staff agreed to supply a task force (Gull Force) and an air strike group to garrison the small Dutch Island of Ambon. The decision to send troops to support the Dutch was made at Singapore where Australia ostensibly agreed to send three squadrons of aircraft to support Ambon in exchange for the Dutch sending four of their squadrons to support Malaya and Singapore should they be attacked. Under closer examination, however, the reasons for sending Australian troops and aircraft to Ambon become more obscure.
Historians and writers in the past have provided various explanations for Australia’s commitment to Dutch Ambon as being; because the Island was a steppingstone for the Japanese to use in approaching Australia; because it was necessary to delay the Japanese for a couple of days; because Australia required a forward operating base; because Timor and Ambon were necessary for maintaining an open air route between Java and Australia; and, because Australia needed to demonstrate to its allies that it was prepared to fight the Japanese regardless of the disproportionate cost in doing so. Considering the paucity of facts regarding the Ambon case, the aim of this dissertation is to examine the question of why the Australian Government knowingly made the decision to send an under equipped, under-strength and unprotected task force to an isolated island in the Malukus to face overwhelming Japanese forces without any hope of reinforcement, rescue or withdrawal.
The conclusions show that the Australian Government and its military advisors were unequal to the task of successfully formulating grand war policy and military strategy in the Ambon Island case during 1941-1942. The minimum aim of war strategy is to formulate a decisive war plan in balance with the attainable political objective and the military’s ability to achieve those ends. The Ambon strategy failed these criterion where Gull Force was sent to garrison the Island without any stated aims other than fighting to hold the Japanese advance for no longer than a few days to demonstrate Australia’s willingness to fight. Gull Force was given an impossible task to fulfil at a price that could not be justified under any conventional strategic principles of the time
Portrait of Agnes Littlejohn, 1941 [picture] /
No full textInscriptions: "Yours sincerely, Agnes Littlejohn, 1941, Freeman" --In ink lower left to right.; Title from inscription.; Condition: Good.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24156267
Portrait of Helen Gilliland, [autographed] 1941 [picture].
No full textPart of the Lady Viola Tait collection.; Title from caption on verso and handwritten inscription on photograph: To Gran Pa With My Love, Helen 1941.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3600660
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