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INTERVIEWS & ESSAYS ... perspectives of wartime service

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Re: World War 1

Flying with 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps - 1918

                                Lt James (Lee) Smith DFC to Australian Society of World War 1 Aero Historians

World War 1 in an RE8 

  Lt Jack Treacy describes his flying experiences

 The late Reverend Fred McKay and Neil Smith put their heads together on this one some years ago enabling Neil to write this story about Lt. John Clifford Peel,  AFC  ...  a previously unknown link between 3 Squadron AFC and our beloved Reverend Fred's passions in life - Flynn's Inland Mission and its soul-mate, the Flying Doctor Service.

The Sloane family honoured 2/AM Douglas Sloane by a biography about his short  service   with 3 Squadron AFC ... short because he was the observer/mechanic who was killed with the    pilot Lt Shapira whilst his RE8 was moving with the Squadron from England to France in 1917.

A biography written by Adrian Hellwig on  Harold Edwards who was the last-living of our  WW1 3 Squadron A.F.C. members

Re: Between World War I and World War II

 3 Squadron R.A.A.F. before WW2 at Richmond NSW

Re: World War II

3 Squadron's life in the Desert Air Force 

     WGCDR  R. H. (Bobby) Gibbes  DSO, DFC & Bar  to  Watson and Jones's ... in "3 Squadron at War"

A profile on Hauptmann Hans-Joachim Marseille, a Luftwaffe ace who flew against the Squadron and who'd brought down several Squadron pilots during the long desert war . 

J.C.Waters writes about Peter Turnbull in his book "Valiant Youth"

J.C.Waters writes about Woof Arthur, a 3 Squadroner who went on to fight the Japanese in New Guinea.

A tribute to Rev Bob Davies

1. Sgt Lou Kemp - a collection of  Stuart Morris's photos (submitted by David Martin)

 2. Biography of Sgt Lou Kemp ... by David Martin

If we thought training in our early days was tough, Saburo Sakai, in his autobiography "SAMURAI" (Ballantine Books, New York, 1958) describes pilot-training in the Japanese Navy.

Teenagers training to become fighter-pilots early in the 1940's (Arthur Pardey)

Here's a great letter e-mailed in by Vic Cogan in S.A. It was written by Granton Harrison (who served with 3 Squadron) to his mother during his evacuation from Malaya. In it he describes his remarkable adventures from the time he was shot down until ... (read it and see).

  Lew Ranger's viewpoint: "The possible effects dive-bombing may have on the human body".

Click here to access James Oglethorpe's locations of audio history interviews of various 3 Squadron personnel available on the Internet through the Keith Murdoch sound archive. He has found that there are actually more than 300 transcripts, including about a dozen 3 Squadroners, on this site.

Re: Peace Time Service

Flying with 3 Squadron after  WW ll - Butterworth

Mick Hickey recalls an incident during his Butterworth days.

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