Historical information
Image of RAAF Radio & Radar Trainee Mechanics taken at the Exhibition Building, Melbourne in 1941-42. In 1940, in the months after the outbreak of WWII, the Exhibition Buildings complex was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Air Force and used as a barracks and training facility. By 1942 more than 2000 men of the RAAF had been stationed there, alongside members of the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force.
Physical description
Brown timber frame and cream coloured mount containing photograph of large group of airmen
Inscriptions & markings
Plaque -RAAF Radio & Radar
Trainee Mechanics 1941-42
at Exhibition Building Melbourne
