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• worldwarii
• ww2
• secondworldwar
• aircraft
• aviation
• airplane
• usaaf
• worldwar2
• worldwartwo
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• libraryofcongress
• militaryaviation
• 29thtroopcarriersquadron
• 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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Mally_0052 Mally Collection Image

from SDASM Archives

• Michael Mally said:

  Airmen from the 376th Bombardment Group atop an abandoned and derelict Luftwaffe Bf-109. The fighter was disabled by retreating Germans when the British Imperial forces recaptured Gambut airfield in the Libyan desert. The man at this photograph’s far right is 1st Lt. Navigator/Bombardier William O. (O’Brien) Mally. Mally, and perhaps the others in this picture, had been part of the Halverson Detachment. The Detachment was one of a couple of units created to bomb Japan after Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Before HALPRO, the detachment’s code name, deployed someone in Washington decided to depart from normal American practice which put both a navigator and a bombardier aboard heavy bombers. HALPRO navigators were hastily trained to bomb too.

obrien_00108

from SDASM Archives

• Brian OBrien said:

  Great picture taken by a great man, not my mum lol 😂

Female munitions worker Rocklea Brisbane

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  The Rocklea Munitions Works was built in the early 1940s and, according to Brisbane City Council's heritage listing for the site, were some of the "most northerly munitions works constructed in Australia during the Second World War". It was one of the largest construction projects undertaken in Queensland during the war and became increasingly vital to the war effort as the fighting moved to Papua and New Guinea. Due to its importance to the war effort and risk of being targeted, the property had air raid shelters for factory workers, which remain on site. The machining shop in the factory produced cartridge cases for 25-pounder ammunition during the war. Source: www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-08/salisbury-rocklea-munition...