NORTHERN AUSTRALIA. THE RAAF BUILDS ITS OWN AERODROMES. THE BATTLE OF THE BISMARCK SEA HAS PROVED ...

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Bismarck Sea
Accession Number 014474
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Turner, Harry
Place made Australia
Date made 22 March 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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NORTHERN AUSTRALIA. THE RAAF BUILDS ITS OWN AERODROMES. THE BATTLE OF THE BISMARCK SEA HAS PROVED BEYOND ALL DOUBT THE EFFICIENCY OF AIR POWER IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST JAPAN. ONE OF THE ESSENTIALS IN AIR SUPREMACY IS A PLENTITUDE OF AIRFIELDS AND AIRSTRIPS. HUNDREDS OF THESE HAVE BEEN AND ARE BEING CONSTRUCTED THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA. IN MANY INSTANCES THE RAAF WITH ITS OWN PERSONNEL HAS BUILT AIRFIELDS AND STRIPS. THESE PHOTOS SHOW RAAF PERSONNEL AT WORK SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA. TWO OF THE MANY LORRY DRIVERS ENGAGED IN AERODROME CONSTRUCTION WORK, AIRCRAFTMAN I G. HOWELL OF SOUTH GIPPSLAND AND ACI G.C. LACEY OF MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, WITH THE UNIT'S MASCOT "FITZY". FITZY IS A PART BRED DACHSHUND DOG. HER EXACT PEDIGREE IS UNKNOWN. (NEGATIVE BY TURNER).