Royal Australian Air Force identification photographs of World War II ships in Australian waters and ports, 1938-1944 / chiefly taken by RAAF flying officer William Myers

PXA 677

fonds

July 1938 - May 1944

Graphic Materials, Photographs

91335

Photographs - 477 silver gelatin photoprints - 61 silver gelatin copy photoprints

Guide to the collection: Royal Australian Air Force ship identification photographs, World War 2 / by Harold Schultz. Kirribilli, N.S.W. : H. Schultz, 1998 available at Q623.82/31 Mitchell Library (additional copy Pictures/Q623.82/31A)

William Myers was a flying officer in the aerial reconnaissance section of No. Six Squadron RAAF. This squadron and others were assigned to photograph for security reasons all the military and merchant ships in Australian and adjacent waters from just before and during World War II. Together with these photographs are 61 copy photographs of Japanese military aircraft silhouettes as well as identification photographs, drawings and silhouettes of Allied and Axis warships -- ML 1389/95