WAAAF KANA OPERATORS FROM NO. 1 WIRELESS UNIT RAAF, WHO INTERCEPTED AND DECODED JAPANESE ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Queensland, Brisbane
Accession Number P00473.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Place made Australia: Queensland, Brisbane, Ascot
Date made c 1943 - 1 August 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

WAAAF KANA OPERATORS FROM NO. 1 WIRELESS UNIT RAAF, WHO INTERCEPTED AND DECODED JAPANESE COMMUNICATIONS AS PART OF THE CENTRAL BUREAU, THE JOINT AUSTRALIA-US SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION FORMED IN APRIL 1942. LEFT TO RIGHT: BACK ROW: DAWN McMAHON, DOT BLUNDELL, NAN "NICKY" NICHOLSON; MIDDLE ROW: PHYLLIS BROWNSON, JOY LINNANE, CONNIE GIOVANETTI; FRONT ROW, STELLA SAUNDERS, BARBARA COTTAM, LAURINA DALE, JOYCE CHARLES. (IDENTICAL IMAGE HELD AT P00123.001)