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B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Oral History, Alan Scarlett Story, 2014
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Alan Scarlett was in the RAAF from 18/08/1943 until February 1946 and was a B-24 Liberator gunner between the end of 1943 and September 1945 with 21 Squadron.The oral history of Alan Scarlett is of historical significance because it provides a first hand account of the individual's experience during World War II as a member of the RAAF who trained at Tocumwal, Nhill and Leyburn. He saw active service in the Pacific conflict from Fenton and Morotai as a gunner on a B-24 Liberator. He was also air-crew during the repatriation of former World War II prisoners or war in 1945.A4 paper hand written transcript of 5 pagesBlack and white print of a B-24 Liberator at the top of the page. Werribee Liberator Restoration Visit. Neerim Men's Shed. Sunday 16th March 2014. -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Graviscope, W&G, Graviscope for Liberator, circa 1942
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Standard crew issue for pilots and flight engineers.The equipment supplied air crew with a computer to calculate individual aircraft's weight and balance.2 Circular plastic manual computing discs with black print on a white background with areas for calculating Centre of gravity, Armament, Bomb loadings,Fuel, oil,Crew, Miscel., Oxygen and Camera. Clear plastic protractor with string attached. Enclosed in a leather envelope.GRAVISCOPE FOR LIBERATOR. MODEL B24J, L AND M. MANUFACTURED BY MELB. >W&G< AUST. R.A.A.F IDENT NO G6B/2396 -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Computer True Air Speed, General Luminiscent Corporation
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Standard crew issue for pilots and flight engineersEquipment supplied crew with a computer to calculate true airspeed.2 black discs printed with luminous paint with plastic indicator, used for calculating true air speed.COMPUTER. TRUE AIRSPEED. A.C. TYPE G-1 A list of 4 instructions for use. Spec. No. 27367-A, MFG.DWG. No. 42D531, Order No.42-18049-P GENERAL LUMINESCENT CORPORATION, CHICAGO -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Helmet and Goggles
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...These goggles and helmets were issued to flying recruits for learning to fly biplanes.Leather helmet with suede lining, under chin strap, earphone inlets with snap locked flaps. Metal framed goggles with leather surrounds, adjustable rubber strap and split glass lenses.Made in England Patent. R51067 scratched into metal. -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Flying Log Book Isaacs M.G, Royal Australian Air Force Flying Log Book
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Log book was issued to W O Isaacs who qualified as a pilot on Airspeed Oxford, Anson and Liberator aircraft.Leather covered Log BookRoyal Australian Air Force. Flying Log Book. Name Isaacs M.G. -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Log Book, Obserevers Air Gunners And W/T Operators Flying Log Book, June 1938
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...C. G. Ashcroft qualified as a 1st Engineer on B-24 Liberator aircraft in March 1944 Rectangular blue linen bound cover bookG C Ashcroft 32827 Flying Officer -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Aircraft Recognition Model, Model Aircraft, 1941-1945
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Created to supply training & recognition of friendly/enemy aircraft.Expanded the skills of recognition for air crew, ground crew and defence activities.Small bakelite British Airspeed Oxford aircraft, coloured black matt, uncluding hole for suspension and mobility.Airspeed Oxford E9-2189 D^D DLTDC -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Aircraft Recognition Model, Model Aircraft, 1942
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Created to supply training and recognition of friendly/enemy aircraft.Expanded the skills of recognition for air crew, ground crew and defence activities.Small bakelite P39 Aircobra Aircraft, coloured black matt including hole for suspension and mobility.P-39 June 42 US -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Aircraft Recognition Model, Model Aircraft, Circa 1940's
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Created to supply training and recognition of friendly/enemy aircraft.Expanded the skills of recognition for ground crew, air crew and defence activities.Small bakelite CAC Boomerang aircraft model, coloured black. -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Aircraft Recognition Model, D^D, Model Aircraft, Circa 1940's
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Created to supply training and recognition of friendly/enemy aircraft.Expanded the skills of recognition for air crew,ground crew and defence activities.Large bakelite Consolidated 31 aircraft model coloured black."Consolidated31" E9-2994 D^D DLtdC -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Aircraft Recognition Model, Model Aircraft, 1942
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Created to supply recognition of friendly/enemy aircraft.Expanded the skills of recognition for air crew,ground crew and defence activities.Small bakelite P38 Lightning aircraft model, coloured black including hole for suspension and mobility.P-38, US July 42 -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Aircraft Recognition Model, Model Aircraft, 1942
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Created to supply training and recognition of friendly/enemy aircraftExpanded the skills of recognition for air crew, ground crew and defence activities.Medium bakelite German Junkers 88 aircraft model, coloured black including hole for suspension and mobility.German Junkers 88. 9.42 -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Aircraft Recognition Model, Model Aircraft, June 1942
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Created to supply training and recognition of friendly/enemy aircraft.Expanded the skills of recognition for air crew. ground crew and defence activities.Medium bakelite Japanese Nakajima Kate aircraft, coloured black including hole for suspension and mobility.NAKA T-97 NTB June '42. -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Aircraft Recognition Model, Department of Defence, Model Aircraft, Circa 1940's
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Created to supply training and recognition of friendly/enemy aircraft.Expanded the skills of recognition for air crew, ground crew and defence activities.Small bakelite Curtiss "Helldiver" aircraft model coloured matt black, including hole for suspension and mobility.Curtiss SB2C-1 E9-2349 D^D DLTDC. -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Aircraft Recognition Model, Department of Defence, Model Aircraft, Circa 1940's
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Created to supply training and recognition of friendly/enemy aircraftExpanded the skills of recognition for air crew, ground crew and defence activities.Small bakelite Spitfire Mk 5 aircraft, coloured matt black, including hole for suspension and mobility."Spitfire" Mk.V. Trop. E9-2275 D^D DC LTD -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Aircraft Recognition Model, Department of Defence, Model Aircraft, Circa 1940's
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Created to supply training and recognition of friendly/enemy aircraft.Expanded the skills of recognition for air crew, ground crew and defence activities.Large bakelite B17 Flying Fortress aircraft, coloured matt black, including hole for suspension and mobility."Flying Fortress" Boeing B17E.E9-2324 DS^D DLTDC -
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B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Oral History, Arthur Cambell Williams History
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Arthur Williams was in the RAAF from13/10/1940 until April 1946 and was a radar operator between February 1945 and April 1946.The oral history of Arthur Williams is of historical significance because it provides a first hand account of the individual's experience during WW11 as a member of the RAAF who trained at Tocumwal.He saw active service in the Pacific conflict from Leyburn and Morotai as a radar operator on a B24 Liberator supporting Z Force.A4 perspex covered, bound typed copyBlack printed Arthur Cambell Williams History on grey paper with fancy black border -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Bomb Release Quadrant, Partial Bomb Release Quadrant, 1942-1945
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Created for the purpose of bomb delivery from B-24 Liberator aircraft. The item was originally fitted to RAAF Liberator 72-176. During salvage and disposal operations it was damaged losing 50% of the body. The item was used as a reference to manufacture a complete example.An example of late 1930's engineering practice in an endeavour to modernise aircraft technology.The item has 50% of it's body missing.Quadrant base and operative lever.Quarter circle casting with operating handle attached,base is squared off with rivets attaching both parts.Bomb doors, 32-F-7523 (part number) three times, closed, open, safe, select. -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Bomb Release Quadrant- Scale Model, B24-Liberator Memorial Restoration Fund Incorporated, December 2018
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...After an eight year international search for a complete bomb quadrant to fit the B24- Liberator fuselage it was decided to create a replica. This scale mode was used to prove the methodology.This scale model allowed us to manufacture a full size complete working replica.This replica is now installed in the B24-Liberator and completes the operational system.Quarter circle quadrant with operating levers and security bracket. Body is dark green with two red operating handles. -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Aero Engine Valve Assembly, Aircraft Radial Engine Valve, C1940
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Item was found at a Japanese aircraft crash site on Nauru Island 1975Indicate Japanese manufacturing level during WW11. The porcelain head on the valve is unusual and difficult to match to steel.Valve fitted with spring and porcelain valve head.Slight bend in valve stem due to impact damage.None -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Flying Log Book Flt. Lt. Roy Mc Beattie, Flight Log- Liberator Flights
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...R.M. Beattie qualified as a B24-Liberator pilot on9/05/1944 until he was KIA 2/07/1945.Plastic covered ring binder,A4 plastic sheet covered photocopied paper.Flight Log Book- Liberator Flights, Flt. Lt. Roy McBeattie 404228 DFM -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Service Maunuals Case, Service Manuals in officially supplied Case, C. 1930s 1940s
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Service manuals for the B-24D Liberator aircraft.These instruction mauals were officially issued from the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation, San Diego, California USASquare leather case with 2 handles and metal clasp, with gold inscriptions.E. Duplex SUMITON, ALA. CONSOLIDATED VULTEE with an eagle in gold circle. Service Manuals. 01618 i tooled into base of case. -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Flying Log Book M.D. Frecker, April 1937
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Flt.Lt.M.D.Frecker qualified as a pilot on B-24 Liberator aircraft from April 1944 until the end of November 1945Rectangular blue linen bound hard cover book. Also lost earlier log book.ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE. FLYING LOG BOOK . FORM A.18.(Revised April 1937) (R.A.F. Form 414.) -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Map Book, Air Pilot Manual of the Pacific Islands, 3.1.1944
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Part of pilot equipment to be carried at all times whilst flying in the South Pacific war zone during WW11Kept up to date and confidential maps for landing areas on all Pacific Islands in case of emergencyLarge linen covered paper map bookAir Pilot Manual of the PACIFIC ISLANDS, confidential, No.4860, 2nd Issue. Office of the ASSISTANT CHIEF OF AIR STAFF INTELLIGENCE Headquarters Army Air Forces, Washington D.C. January 3rd 1944. -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Pilot's Seat, B24 Liberator Pilot's Seat, C1942
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...This pilot's seat was part of the B24 Liberator 's fittings. The seat although not part of the aircraft's air frame, was bolted to the cockpit floor as a permanent fixture.Green painted metal shell of a B24 Liberator aircraft pilot's seat including all fittings.None -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Flying Log Book LAC J.W. Gribble
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...LAC J.W. Gribble qualified for flying for the RAF on B-24 Liberator aircraft from June 1944 until July 1945Photocopies on A3 paper of flying log bookRoyal Australian Airforce crest -
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B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Accessory - Belt Buckle
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...Large Forged Iron embossed belt buckle.B-24 LIBERATOR, 1939-1989, 50th ANNIVERSARY (on front) LIMITED EDITION 50th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE,B-24 LIBERATOR, 1989 BUCKLE CONNECTION, SERIAL 0612 OF 1939. B-24 LIBERATOR Origin: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Co Type: Long-range bomber with normal crew of 10 History: First flight(xb 24) December 29 1939 Withdraw from service 1955-56 It was built in bigger numbers than any other American aircraft in history and served on every front in WW11 and with15 allied nations. -
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Work on paper - Flying Log Book Excerpts - F/LT Norman Kobelke
... B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc Corner ...F/LT Kobelke was a navigator in a B-24 LiberatorPhotocopied A4 sheets of paper