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- … Cablegram 102 CANBERRA, 9 July 1943 IMMEDIATE SECRET Australian Air Staff have raised question of supply and replenishment of Spitfire aircraft for squadrons operating in Darwin and New … for combat. In the New Guinea sector operations were more extensive and, at the request of the Commander, Allied Air Forces, an additional Spitfire squadron was raised from accumulated wastage reserves, and was despatched to New Guinea. This action was concurred in by the Air Ministry. 4. The current situation relating to Spitfire aircraft is as follows- (1) Receipts- (a) Received into depots …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-06/240-curtin-to-bruce
- … Media Release D1-96 Media Release The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has reviewed its Travel Advice for Cambodia issued on 31 January 1995. The Department advises that as a result of the security situation in … a high level of risk to the safety of foreign nationals. Outside Phnom Penh all travel should normally be undertaken by air. Travel from Phnom Penh by air to visit the Angkor Wat complex temples at Siem Reap is safe although visitors should check with the local authorities …https://dfat.gov.au/news/media/Pages/consular-travel-advisory-cambodia -
- … Territory to establish a permanent scientific base. The Cabinet had before it reports from the Departments of Navy and Air on the practicability of a short voyage this summer by a naval ship equipped with suitable aircraft, to survey Cape … undertake general reconnaissance. The Department of Navy advised that there was available no suitable ship from which an air reconnaissance could be made; and that the length of the voyage was beyond the fuelling capacity of the average naval … in providing suitable equipment. A small ship (such as a frigate) would run serious risks from ice. The Department of Air reported that a long-range air reconnaissance from the mainland would be attended by definite risks, which would be …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-12/569-beasley-to-addison
- … 11. General MacArthur said that prior to the attack on Morotai, there was evidence that, for some reason, the Japanese Air Force was not capable of putting up any material opposition. On the capture of the air field, some hundreds of Japanese planes were found grounded. He then formed the view that some very important factors had occurred which had led to the failure of the Japanese to offer resistance from the air. These might be, loss of experienced pilots, inadequate training of replacements, inability to form balanced squadrons, …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-07/305-note-of-discussion-between-curtin-macarthur-and-wilson
- … from His Majesty's United Kingdom Ambassador, Washington of the official United States attitude towards post-war civil air transport. Begins:- 1. The following estimation of the official American attitude to wards post-war civil air transport is necessarily a statement of opinion. It represents the position as we see it at the moment but American views are still fluid. 2. It would seem that American aims in the field of post-war civil air transport may be: (a) The establishment of at least one American round the world air service plus commercial air entry …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-07/2-cranborne-to-commonwealth-government
- … opposition of the United States and Soviet Russia, and apparently of China also, to the establishment of an International Air Transport Authority to operate international air trunk routes and to own the aircraft employed thereon, it seems likely that the principles enunciated in the Australia - … It is understood that the plan is favourably regarded by Lord Beaverbrook, Chairman of the British Cabinet Committee on Air Transport. The Hon. C. D. Howe was also in complete accord with the proposal but considered that instead of a British …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-07/301-commonwealth-government-to-fraser
- … whatever they do, Hitler will have to break us in this island or lose the war. Our principal danger is his concentrated air attack by bombing, coupled with parachute and airborne landings, and attempts to run an invading force across the sea. … could be transported across the sea, and still less maintained, in the teeth of superior sea-power. As long as our Air Force is in being it provides a powerful aid to the Fleet in preventing seaborne landings and will take a very heavy … we have suffered heavy losses by assisting the French and during the Dunkirk evacuation, we have managed to husband our air fighter strength in spite of poignant appeals from France to throw it improvidently into the great land battle which it …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-03/388-lord-caldecote-uk-secretary-of-state-for-dominion-affairs-to-sir-geoffrey-whiskard-uk-high-commissioner-in-australia
- … Their belief was that there were only about 40,000 Japanese in Indo-China and that work on Camranh Bay and on air fields in Indo-China was long way from completion. Recent Japanese trend was towards the reinforcing of their forces in … of their forces in China, and not towards the south. On the other hand Japanese had a chain of stepping stones (with air fields) in islands southward from Tokyo and were working hard on Saipan 50 miles north of Guam. There was also Japanese air strength at Palau island. On my telling him of the President's [2] tentative suggestion that R.A.A.F. might consider …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-05/88-mr-r-g-casey-minister-to-the-united-states-to-department-of-external-affairs
- … maintain vital overseas lines of communication, with particular emphasis on defeat of U-boat menace; (d) intensify the air offensive against Axis powers in Europe; (e) concentrate maximum resources in a selected area, as early as practicable … concept:- (a) for the defeat of Axis powers in Europe:- (i) to accomplish, by combined United States and British air offensive, destruction and dislocation of the German military, industrial and economic system and the subsequent … the defeat of Japan:- (i) in the Burma-China theatre:- to concentrate available resources on building up and increasing air route to China and developing air forces in Assam with a view to intensifying air operations against the Japanese in …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-06/213-attlee-to-cross
- … line with the official Admiralty views. As another silly season subject, I hope to waste some of the time of some of the Air Ministry people on finding out how they would propose, if they had the run of their teeth, to defend Australia from the air. I have already had a talk to Sir Hugh Trenchard [7], who, of course, is all for it! I will, of course, be propaganded … with Trenchard, he seemed a little grieved at the fact that none of the Dominions had ever yet invited a Senior Air Force Officer to visit them and discuss their Air Force or Air Defence generally in the same way as Kitchener, Jellicoe …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-17/29