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Collection
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Albert Ray Irvine as a member of 214 Squadron, No 100 (Bomber Support) Group, 1943-1944, and a prisoner of war in Germany, 1944-1945, interviewed by John Fincher.
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Maker: Irvine, Albert Ray Fincher, John Farram
Background, family and employment before joining the RAAF; he had initially applied to the AIF but was not accepted on medical grounds. In 1942 he went to Calgary, Canada, to be part of the Empire Air...S02854
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Albert Ray Irvine recounts his experiences as a flying officer, wireless air gunner, 214 Squadron, No 100 (Bomber Support) Group and a prisoner of war, 1942-1945, in an oral memoir.
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Maker: Irvine, Albert Ray Irvine, Albert Ray
Irvine discusses his training in Australia, Canada and Waddington in England before posting to 214 Squadron flying Stirlings and then B-17s specially equipped with radar jamming devices to protect the...S02855
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Box of Window radar counter measure foil
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Paper and cardboard parcels containing strips of Window radar counter measure foil. To be used in conjunction with Window Launching Machine Mk.1aRELAWM35359.002
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Mellor, Reginald White (Warrant Officer, b.1916 - d.2002)
Private Record
Maker: Mellor, Reginald White
Collection relating to 407906 Warrant Officer Reginald White Mellor, 458 Squadron, RAAF. Collection consists of an original 'Wartime log' (diary) kept by WO Mellor while a prisoner of war in Germany....PR05830
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Mk.1a Window Launching Machine
Technology
Maker: 199 Squadron RAF
Window Launching Machine Mk.1a prototype. The machine consists of an aluminium alloy box, containing three levels of trays for packets of Window radar counter measure foil. The trays are actuated by a...RELAWM35359.001
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(O318689; 430651) Edward Lloyd Fleming (Flying Officer)
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Maker: Fleming, Edward Lloyd Ward, Meleah Elizabeth Australian War Memorial Black, Wade
Edward Lloyd Fleming as a flying officer, pilot, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), serving with 550 Squadron Royal Air Force (RAF), United Kingdom, 1943-1946, interviewed by Meleah Elizabeth Ward.S04444
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Packet of Window radar counter measure foil
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Paper and cardboard parcel containing strips of Window radar counter measure foil. To be used in conjunction with Window Launching Machine Mk.1aRELAWM35360
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Roll of WINDOW radar counter-measures : Flight Lieutenant C C Linn, RAAF
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Roll of aluminium tape, known as Window, dropped from aircraft as a radar countermeasure. Paper parachute not extant.REL31299
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Strips of 'Window' used to jam Japanese radar : Flight Sergeant R N Forbes, 42 Squadron RAAF
Technology
Approximately 50 strips of aluminium backed with paper, known as 'Window' or 'Chaff', of the type used to jam radar.REL25141
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Studio portrait of 424778 Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) Charles Joseph Merryfull (later MBE) RAAF. A ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Studio portrait of 424778 Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) Charles Joseph Merryfull (later MBE) RAAF. A member of 199 Squadron RAF, he was responsible for the design of the window foil launching machine whic...P09781.001