365... Foreword

367... Introduction

369... Chapter 1: Growing Up

• 372... Early Australian Meteorologists
• 374... Early Days in the Bureau
• 378... Forecasters' Training Course
• 383... My Classmates
• 386... Reorganisation of the Bureau
• 386... Love and Marriage

388... Chapter 2: Port Moresby Before Pearl Harbour

• 390... Sydney to Port Moresby by DH-86
• 391... First Impressions of Port Moresby
• 393... Meteorological Office Routine
• 395... Flight to Kokoda
• 396... Tropical Meteorology
• 397... John (Doc) Hogan
• 398... Setting up House
• 403... We Join the RAAF
• 405... A Contrast in Attitudes
• 406... Some RAAF History
• 407... RAAF No 10 Squadron
• 408... RAAF No 11 Squadron
• 409... The Catalina Story
• 411... Construction of the Seven-mile Airstrip and Reclamation Area
• 413... Meteorological Service for the RAAF
• 414... Unexpected Vistitors
• 415... Our State of Readiness
• 415... Our Domestic Situation
• 416... A Japanese Surprise Packet
• 418... What Had We Meteorologists Achieved?

419... Chapter 3: Port Moresby After Pearl Harbour

• 422... Work in the Meteorological Office
• 423... Japanese Land in Rabaul
• 424... Catalina and Hudson Operations
• 424... First Sight of the Japanese
• 425... Japanese Plans for the Invasion of Port Moresby
• 425... RAAF Meteorologists Under Threat of Japanese Advance
• 428... More Air Raids on Port Moresby
• 430... The Story of the Hudson
• 431... A Blow to Morale
• 433... More Air Raids but No 75 Squadron Kittykawks Arrive
• 435... Japanese Attempt to Invade Port Moresby by Sea
• 437... Japanese Submarines Attack Sydney
• 438... Attack on MV MacDhui
• 439... Return to Australia
• 439... The Meteorologists' Contribution

440... Chapter 4: Allied Air Force HQ and RAAF Command, Brisbane

• 440... General Douglas MacArthur
• 442... We Join Allied Air Headquarters, Brisbane
• 443... Ralph Holmes
• 445... Forecasting Procedure
• 447... WAAAFs and Other Staff
• 448... Briefing MacArthur & Co
• 448... Domestic Affairs
• 450... The Yanks Are Coming
• 450... Japanese Advance Across Owen Stanley Range
• 452... General George C. Kenney
• 453... Additional Staff
• 454... Staff Arrangements
• 454... Long Range Forecast
• 455... Investigations into Tropical Meteorology
• 457... Radiosondes
• 459... Analysis Statements
• 459... MacArthur's Remarkable Strategy
• 460... A New Direction
• 461... Tropical Weather Research Bulletin
• 463... RAAF Command, Pat Squires and Henry Phillpot

465... Chapter 5: Japan Surrenders and We Are Demobilised

• 466... Visit to Japan
• 469... The RAAF Meteorological Service Returns to 'Civvy' Street
• 471... Some Thoughts on Tropical Meteorology

474... Epilogue

475... Acknowledgements

476... Appendix 1: References

477... Appendix 2: Milestones

• 477... 1788
• 477... 1822
• 477... 1840
• 477... 1841
• 477... 1850
• 477... 1853
• 477... 1855
• 477... 1857
• 478... 1859
• 478... 1863
• 478... 1873
• 478... 1879
• 478... 1887
• 478... 1894
• 478... 1901
• 478... 1903
• 478... 1904
• 478... 1908
• 478... 1910
• 478... 1914
• 478... 1918
• 478... 1916
• 478... 1917
• 479... 1919
• 479... 1920
• 479... 1921
• 479... 1928
• 479... 1932
• 479... 1933
• 479... 1934
• 479... 1936
• 479... 1937
• 479... 1938
• 480... 1939
• 480... 1940–1944
• 481... 1940
• 481... 1941
• 482... Dec 1941–Jan 1942
• 482... 1942
• 486... 1943
• 486... 1944
• 487... 1944–1945
• 487... 1945
• 487... 1946

488... Appendix 3: Papers Published in Tropical Weather Research Bulletins

489... Appendix 4: Radiosonde Observations 1941–46

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