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• worldwarii
• ww2
• secondworldwar
• aircraft
• aviation
• airplane
• usaaf
• worldwar2
• worldwartwo
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• libraryofcongress
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• military
• wartime
• 1942
• carrier
• war
• troop
• 29th
• squadron
• 1940s
• alfredtpalmer
• slidefilm

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• SDASM Archives 2,517 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 366 photos & illustrations
• Provincial Archives of Alberta 116 photos & illustrations
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 96 photos & illustrations
• JWA Commons 80 photos & illustrations
• National Museum of Denmark 75 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 56 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Australia 52 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 47 photos & illustrations
• Nationaal Archief 47 photos & illustrations
• The National Archives UK 45 photos & illustrations
• OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons 43 photos & illustrations

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Gun battery at HMCS Cornwallis

from Halifax Municipal Archives

• Abbie Hudson said:

  I saw someone uploaded this picture to a Facebook group and said it was the Gunnery School at HMCS Cornwallis

• Halifax Municipal Archives said:

  Thanks for the identification, Abbie Hudson! I've done some digging online and it looks like they - and you - are right!

Woman offering refreshments to a patient reclining outdoors (0001-0007)

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  The primary role of a Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) member was that of nursing orderly in hospitals, carrying out menial but essential tasks - scrubbing floors, sweeping, dusting and cleaning bathrooms and other areas, dealing with bedpans, and washing patients. They were not employed in military hospitals, except as ward and pantry maids; rather, they worked in Red Cross convalescent and rest homes, canteens, and on troop trains. The role of VADs did not significantly evolve between the wars. VADs in the Second World War were given more medical training, but they were not fully qualified nurses. They worked in convalescent hospitals, on hospital ships and the blood bank as well as on the home front. In 1943, the government created the Australian Women's Auxiliary Service (AWAS) to control the large numbers of VADs employed by the military. In 1967, the VAD movement became known as the Voluntary Aid Service Corps (VASC). Source: www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/vad

W.A.A.A.F.s at Mascot, 4 July 1944 photographed by Ivan Ives

from State Library of New South Wales

• covid convict said:

  nla.gov.au/nla.obj-449744708/view?sectionId=nla.obj-47886... - this pic appeared in Pix on 5th August, 1944...in a feature article titled 'WAAFs Release Airmen for Assault on Japan' Pix's caption: 'Technicians ACWs Jean Gray, Isobel Mack, Joyce Tysoe and Constance Black step briskly along the tarmac on their way to begin day’s work at station in Australia where PIX took these pictures. This team of Waaaf technicians was the first to begin duty at station. None of the girls had experience of mechanics before joining up. Joyce Tysoe was a stenographer, now she is an aircraft rigger. Her job is to do maintenance work on airframes.' collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9WZWwpzY - link to the Pix WAAAF series of pics at the SLNSW...a number of these pics also appeared in the Pix article.