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Glimpse of the RAAF Meteorological Service Preface Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: Growing Up Chapter 2: Port Moresby Before Pearl Harbour Chapter 3: Port Moresby After Pearl Harbour Chapter 4: Allied Air Force HQ and RAAF Command, Brisbane General Douglas MacArthur We Join Allied Air Headquarters, Brisbane Ralph Holmes Forecasting Procedure WAAAFs and Other Staff Briefing MacArthur & Co Domestic Affairs The Yanks Are Coming Japanese Advance Across Owen Stanley Range General George C. Kenney Additional Staff Staff Arrangements Long Range Forecast Investigations into Tropical Meteorology Radiosondes Analysis Statements MacArthur's Remarkable Strategy A New Direction Tropical Weather Research Bulletin RAAF Command, Pat Squires and Henry Phillpot Chapter 5: Japan Surrenders and We Are Demobilised Epilogue Acknowledgements Appendix 1: References Appendix 2: Milestones Appendix 3: Papers Published in Tropical Weather Research Bulletins Appendix 4: Radiosonde Observations 194146 Index Search Help Contact us |
We Join Allied Air Headquarters, BrisbaneI am not sure why Ralph Holmes and I were chosen to work as the staff meteorologists for Allied Air Headquarters, but presume that MacArthur's advisers realised the importance of meteorological information and decided that meteorologists who had forecasting experience in the tropical South-west Pacific would be best suited to provide Allied Air Headquarters with the meteorological advice they needed.My first endeavour on arrival in Brisbane in July 1942 was to arrange temporary accommodation for my wife, our nine-months old daughter, Jennifer, and myself in a boarding house in the city. I telephoned Audrey who took the first train from Sydney and our family was reunited after seven months separation. I reported to the headquarters of the Allied Air Force in the AMP building where I first met Flt Lt Ralph Holmes, who was the officer in charge of our newly established meteorological section. From memory the only other staff at that time were Sgt 'Herbie' Whittingham and Cpl Leo Fitzgerald. Our office was a single somewhat spartan room about ten by four metres containing a few simple tables and chairs, a map cabinet, and a tall cupboard. Ralph soon acquired a teleprinter, typewriter, charts and other essential material.
People in Bright Sparcs - Holmes, Ralph Aubrey Edward; Whittingham, Herbert E. (Herb)
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