Australia and Lend-Lease

[Mike K]

Don't know if this is relevant but:

I recall reading something relating to surplus in the SWPA . Sometime in the post war period, the Aust. Govt. was offered the equipment that the US had left behind on Manus Island, Seeadler Harbor. The Aust. Govt. knocked back the offer after the equipment was assessed as being suitable for scrap only.

[Mike Cecil]

Lang,

Not me: I'll leave that to others living much closer to the NAA in Canberra to look at those files.

Remote research using Recordsearch throws up lots of nice related file titles to look at, but at $69 each not including GST (and a low research priority for me) far too expensive. A project like this could easily require 100 or 200 file clearances & copying - $6,900 to $13,800, and add 10% if you are in Oz. Over the last seven years I've opened and copied around 160 files on one project alone, and used another 130 on the same project that were already available on line. With NAA costs fast becoming prohibitive for 'off site' research, it is looking cheaper and more pleasurable to fly to Canberra for a few weeks, visit friends and hit the archives with notebook in hand , even from the USA!!

I'm pretty sure Gina would get a shock if she sat down and calculated what the paint project has cost her thus far, but research is our hobby so.......

Mike

[Mike Cecil]

Lang,

That book was a nice find, and unusual for an American author to choose an image of Aust infantry in the jungle for the front cover.

After having read the pages at the link you provided, I have ordered a copy: looks like a well-researched tome and I would really like to see her endnotes list!

Thanks

Mike