Significance
Includedin the collection of Bill Bakker ex RNEIAAF
Physical description
Letter from Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Air to M.D. Frecker. Re: awarded medals during services with the Armed Forces during WWII 1939/45
From the collection of
B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Inc
Letter from Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Air to M.D. Frecker
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Letter from Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Air to M.D. Frecker
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B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia IncMap Book, Air Pilot Manual of the Pacific Islands, 3.1.1944
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B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia IncFlying Log Book, April 1937
Flt.Lt.M.D.Frecker qualified as a pilot on B-24 Liberator aircraft, May 1944
Rectangular blue linen bound hard cover book.
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE. FLYING LOG BOOK . FORM A.18.(Revised April 1937) (R.A.F. Form 414.)
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B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia IncService Maunuals Case, Service Manuals in officially supplied Case, C. 1930s 1940s
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B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia IncFlying Log Book, Flight Log- Liberator Flights
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Plastic covered ring binder,A4 plastic sheet covered photocopied paper.
Flight Log Book- Liberator Flights, Flt. Lt. Roy McBeattie 404228 DFM
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B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia IncAero Engine Valve Assembly, Aircraft Radial Engine Valve, C1940
Item was found at a Japanese aircraft crash site on Nauru Island 1975
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B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia IncBomb Release Quadrant- Scale Model, B24-Liberator Memorial Restoration Fund Incorporated, December 2018
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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.
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