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The Story of the RAAF Meteorological Service

204... Foreword

    206... Introduction

      209... Chapter 1: The Weather Factor in Warfare

      • 216... The Weather and Chemical Warfare
      • 220... Weather Control

      221... Chapter 2: Establishing and Developing the RAAF Directorate of Met. Services (D.Met.S)

      • 221... Summary of Activities and Developments in D.Met.S. to mid-1943
      • 228... Coordination of RAAF and United States Army Air Force and Navy Weather Services
      • 229... Operational Difficulties

      231... Chapter 3: Recruiting and Training of Personnel

      245... Chapter 4: Meteorology in Aviation

      260... Chapter 5: The Met. Retreating

      • 260... Papua New Guinea and New Britain
      • 265... The Netherlands East Indies and Malaya
      • 268... Escape from Timor
      • 279... Northern Australia—1942

      282... Chapter 6: The Met. Advancing

      • 282... The Coral Sea Battle—May 1942
      • 283... The Battle of Milne Bay—24 August to 8 September, 1942
      • 285... The Bismarck Sea Battle—1 March 1943

      296... Chapter 7: The Met With the Army and the Navy

      307... Chapter 8: Divisional Offices of the Bureau of Meteorology During the War

      317... Chapter 9: Research and Instrumental Development

      325... Chapter 10: The End, Aftermath, and Beyond

        332... Appendix 1

        • 332... List of Officers of D.Met.S as at 1 January, 1945

        335... Appendix 2

        • 335... List of Meteorological Assistants and Charters

        336... Appendix 3

        • 336... List of Timor Escapees—February 1942

        338... Appendix 4

        • 338... Summary of Censorship of Weather Information—Australia
        • 338... Censorship
          Summary of Censorship of Weather Information—Australia
        ....... References


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        Joyce, J. 1993 'The Story of the RAAF Meteorological Service', Metarch Papers, No. 5 October 1993, Bureau of Meteorology

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