War History of the Australian Meteorological Service
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: D.Met.S.—Australia's Wartime Weather Service
Chapter 2: The Weather Factor in Warfare
Chapter 3: Met in the Retreat
Chapter 4: Met in the Advance
Chapter 5: Meteorology in Aviation
Functions and Wartime Development
Service at RAAF Training Schools and Stations
Cooperation with US Personnel
Operational Expansion
Movement into Borneo
Chapter 6: Central Forecasting Services
Chapter 7: Met With the Army
Chapter 8: Research and Personnel Training
Chapter 9: Instrumental Development and Maintenance
Chapter 10: Scientific Developments in the RAAF Meteorological Service
Chapter 11: Divisional Bureaux and Their Work
Appendix 1: List of Reports Provided by D.Met.S. for Advances Operational Planning and Other Purposes
Appendix 2: List of Service Personnel RAAF Meteorological Service
Appendix 3: List of Civilian Personnel Who Worked Together with Service Personnel of the RAAF Meteorological Service
Appendix 4: List of Locations at which RAAF Meteorological Service Personnel Served
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Cooperation with US Personnel
In 1942, with United States Army and Navy Air Forces commencing operations in the South-West Pacific, nearly all D.Met.S. aviation met sections were infiltrated with personnel of the American 15th Weather Squadron and, in a few cases, of the US Navy Seventh Fleet, in order to acquaint them with Australian meteorological procedures following the establishment of the Allied Meteorological Service. Differences of approach and training in weather science between Australians and Americans gave rise at this time to various difficulties, which mutual goodwill ultimately solved, both bodies of men receiving benefit from the contact that prevailed until late in the same year, when the dissolution of the Allied air force into the individual controls of the USAAF and RAAF brought about the disestablishment of the combined meteorological service. It is interesting to record, in this connection, that the efficiency and cooperation of Australian meteorological personnel were praised by the United States Fifth Air Force Command on the completion of the association.The dissolution, however, raised problems of duplication of aviation weather sections at the various airfields which were solved by application of the principle that service would be supplied by the air force—either RAAF and USAAF—making the greatest use of the aerodrome.
Organisations in Australian Science at Work - Directorate of Meteorological Services (D.Met.S)
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