BRISBANE, QLD. 1943. OUTSIDE THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE CENTRAL BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE, THE COMBINED ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Queensland, Brisbane
Accession Number P01443.015
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

BRISBANE, QLD. 1943. OUTSIDE THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE CENTRAL BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE, THE COMBINED AUSTRALIAN ARMY, RAAF AND US ARMY ORGANISATION WHOSE FUNCTION WAS TO INTECEPT AND DECODE JAPANESE MILITARY SIGNALS. LEFT TO RIGHT: LIEUTENANT COLONEL A. W. SANDFORD, AIF, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL BUREAU; MAJOR GENERAL H. C. INGLIS, US SIGNALS CORPS; MAJOR GENERAL SPENCER B. AKIN, US ARMY SIGNALS CORPS, DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL BUREAU; POSSIBLY COLONEL H S DOUD.