| Places | |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | AWM2020.22.191 |
| Collection number | PR91/073 |
| Collection type | Digitised Collection |
| Record type | Wallet |
| Item count | 1 |
| Object type | Papers |
| Physical description | 47 Image/s captured |
| Maker |
Bartlett, Norman Bostock, William Dowling News Corp Australia Unknown |
| Place made | Australia |
| Date made | 1940-1945 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copying Provisions | Digital format and content protected by copyright. |
| Source credit to | This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government. |
Wallet 3 of 3 - Newspaper clippings relating to the service of Robert Alfred Yeowart
Description
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 270647 Squadron Leader Robert Alfred Yeowart, Royal Australian Air Force, 1940-1945.
Wallet 3 of 3 - Collection contains 17 newspaper clippings relating to Squadron Leader Yeowart's secret reconnaissance mission to Truk via Rabaul in February 1942, in which he discovered enemy forces in Toll Harbour and the potential threat to Rabaul Harbour. Collection also contains a series of five articles by Air Vice-Marshall William Dowling Bostock regarding the state of the RAAF during the war in the Pacific. Bostock's articles were published in The Courier-Mail in June 1946. Collection also includes an untranslated propaganda leaflet or "security pass" dispersed by the United Nations to members of the surrendering Japanese forces.
This wallet contains:
"RAAF Battled Alone in Holding Up Japanese", The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld: 1933-1954) 13 July 1942: p. 3;
"Malaya Air Veterans on the Job", The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW: 1842-1954) 3 December 1942: p. 5;
"Air Vigils By Day and Night", The Argus (Melbourne, Vic: 1848-1957) 3 December 1942: p. 2;
"Work of Brisbane Pilot Wins Praise", The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld: 1933-1954) 23 December 1942: p.5;
"The Fiery Mos Catter”, The Herald (Melbourne, Vic: 1861-1954) 30 October 1943: p. 4;
“Dramatic Story Of Australian's Flight To Truk”, The Sun (Sydney, NSW: 1910-1954) 5 February 1944: p. 3;
"Flew Over Truk", The Sun (Sydney, NSW: 1910-1954) 6 February 1944: p. 3;
"Brisbane Pilot Took First Truk Photos", The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld: 1872-1947), 23 February 1944: p. 2;
"Truk's Secrets Revealed to RAAF", The Argus (Melbourne, Vic: 1848-1957) 2 March 1944: p. 7;
“Unveiling Mysteries of Truk”, The Argus (Melbourne, Vic: 1848-1957) 28 November 1944: p. 6;
"Air Vice Marshall Bostock Demands", The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld: 1933-1954) 24 June 1946: p. 2;
"Searchlight on the RAAF", The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld: 1933-1954) 25 June 1946: p. 2;
"Air Vice-Marshall W D Bostock to-day begins his factual story of RAAF Command" The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld: 1933-1954) 26 June 1946: p. 2;
"Inside Story Of RAAF", The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld: 1933-1954) 27 June 1946: p. 2;
"Confusion And Pettiness Nearly Spelt Disaster", The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld: 1933-1954) 28 June 1946: p. 2; and
"So few against so many" by Norman Bartlett, AM: The Australian Monthly, January 1952.
The following article has been reproduced with the permission of News Corp Australia:
"Raid that made war history", The Sun Herald, 4 June 1967.