Argus newspaper WW2 collection

[Mike K]

Shows soldiers with rifles jumping out the back of Holden built Chevrolet C15A 15 cwt. truck with No. 2 G.S. body.

Pupils of Victorian state schools contributed 1150 pound out of their own pocket money to purchase this truck for a R.A.A.F. mobile educational unit
Author / Creator
Australia. Royal Australian Air Force. Directorate of Public Relations.
Date
[ca. 1945]

Military trucks - Not for sale - Alice Springs
Date
[ca. 1945]

Military equipment sold to civilians
Date
[ca. 1945]

Empire garden party at Buckingham Palace for ex-P.O.W.s of the Empire
Date
[ca. 1945]

[Mike K]

Contents / Summary
Shows truck being manhandled up a snow covered road, probably in Tasmania.

Contents / Summary
Shows soldiers taking cover lying in gutter at Flinders Street; three soldiers lying under truck.

ARMY FIELD WORKSHOPS IN LIBYA

Soldier reading under truck
Date
[ca. 1942]

[Mike K]

Allied March April 6 ... tanks turn out of Swanston St. into Bourke St.

Fifteen infantrymen advancing in spearhead formation supported by Bren gun carriers behind
Date
[ca. 1942]

Laying telephone wires from Darwin to Alice Springs
Date
[ca. 1944]

Liberators at Darwin. Air Crews leap from truck on arrival at strip.
Date
[ca. 1945] The vehicle is a 1941 Ford military ute.

Troops on the move north from a transit camp in South Australia to central Australia (Alice Springs)

[Mike K]

Building tanks at railway workshops
Date
[ca. 1940-ca. 1945]

Camp Pell (Melbourne) U.S. Signal Corps
Date
[ca. 1942]

[Lynn Eades]

Mike, thanks for posting. Nice LP1 rear detail.

[m606paz]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

Pupils of Victorian state schools contributed 1150 pound out of their own pocket money to purchase this truck for a R.A.A.F. mobile educational unit
Author / Creator
Australia. Royal Australian Air Force. Directorate of Public Relations.
Date
[ca. 1945]

Beautiful pic.
This is a Factory or rebuild late Australian Ford CMP?
No money for rear view mirror..

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by m606paz

Beautiful pic.
This is a Factory or rebuild late Australian Ford CMP?
No money for rear view mirror..

Looks to be a 134"wb model . Yes some of the school kids must have spent their pocket money on lollies instead of donating to the cause..

[Mike K]

Bob Bennet with his Commando motor bicycle
Date
[ca. 1946]

[Mike K]

..Dispatch Rider Fireman Smith of Geelong City Station
Date
[ca. 1942]

Australian Corps of Signals equipment, Centenary of Victoria All-Electrical Exhibition, 1935

Crew viewing magnetic jeep which picks up nails
Date
[1944?]Fifth United States Army Air Force Command Depot, located in northern area of Australia during World War II.

Back in the 1970s I bought a slatt grill Jeep from a guy at Albury: DOD 31st Dec. 1941 . Under many layers of green paint I found a US star and a blue number on the bonnet - 2032??0 Could this be my Jeep ? I have the number written down somewhere.

[Mike K]

Presentation of 2 panel vans at Merton Hall by Presbyterian soldiers Welfare Association for use of Presbyterian padres I.E. padres.
Date
[ca. 1943]

[Australians in the R.A.F. operating on the Burma front] The old chap over the road from ( now passed on ) me was a navigator in the RAAF, he was in a RAF B24 squadron based in India. A pic of him is in the AWM pics.

[Australian troops on Labuan Island, North Borneo]

[Mike K]

[Australian troops on Labuan Island, North Borneo]