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 1941–46
Index
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RAAF Command, Pat Squires and Henry Phillpot (continued)
Henry Phillpot was a younger meteorologist who had worked with Pat in the AMFA section in RAAF Meteorological Service headquarters in Melbourne and assisted in the routine of synoptic analysis and forecasting. He was an enthusiastic scientist who worked assiduously in our routine chart analysis.Our office was airy and comfortable and we had an enthusiastic staff of meteorologists and assistants (including WAAAFs) who were a delight to work with.
I had attended the occasional dining-in at the officers' mess at Victoria Park when our office was located in the AMP building in the city, but with the move of our office to Victoria Park my attendance at these functions became more frequent. Our officers' mess also held the occasional dinner dance to which wives and girl friends were invited. This gave Audrey a welcome break from her routine as housewife and mother.
Audrey and I had been devastated when our second daughter, Carolyn, contracted encephalitis soon after her birth. She required constant hospital care and died at an early age. Another daughter, Judie, was born soon after war's end, a healthy, happy baby, who with Jennifer, our eldest daughter, helped ease the distress we felt at Carolyn's affliction.
Organisations in Australian Science at Work - Air Mass and Frontal Analysis Section (AMFA)
People in Bright Sparcs - Phillpot, Henry Robert; Warren, Herbert Norman
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