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RAAF Radschool Association Magazine - Vol 19
November 2007 Page 19 |
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Sixty two years ago.
A giant column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air, after
the second atomic bomb ever used in warfare explodes over
Ted McEvoy said he read somewhere following the disaster in London . . . The Ambulance Service have launched a national "In Case of Emergency (ICE)" campaign. The idea is that you store the word " ICE " in your mobile phone address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency". In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them. It's so simple that everyone can do it. Why not??? Perhaps we should start a campaign her to get it adopted, send an to everybody in your address book, it won't take too many 'forwards' before everybody will know about this. It really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest. For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc.
Richard Goven wrote, I have only recently been made aware of your publication. I was on 50RMC 64-65 and 37RTC 66-67. I noticed a pic of Eric Reid in Vol 4. I was with Eric at Base Squadron Radio in Ubon in 1966. They were great days on reflection.
We heard from
Before our reunion, I asked RAAF PR for the whereabouts of a promo movie made with our course involvement in 1963. It took about 10 weeks to get a reply ... and the answer was, “The RAAF Museum may know”. I won't hold my breath as I've been told by a few people - only this week by an former SP who told me the CO's name when it hap-pened - that CPE films and stuff were burned. There should have been several of those old movies, but I'll bet they'll never surface.
(We wonder if the RAAF ever kept those old Moody Institute training films, most of which were ex-celent—tb)
"I would like to let you know that the National Archives have various collections of RAAF material including the Pt Cook RAAF Musuem collection which comprises roughly 2,500 items. We also hold various Moody Institute films as a part of the general Defence collection. The National Archives preserves all films as commonwealth records and, depending on condition, they are available to the public, either via screening onsite in Sydney, or where possible, copies on VHS may obtained for a fee."
"The Pt Cook museum collection is not currently searchable as it is being worked on, however it will be fully searchable within about six months on the archives website Recordsearch: http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/recordsearch.aspx"
"I would also like to point you in the direction of another site called Australianscreen Online, which is an initiative by a number of organisations to provide film content online to the public. As yet there is a limited number of films to view, but these are being added to all the time. Most government films appear under the link for 'sponsered films'. The address is http://australianscreen.com.au/. I hope this information is helpful to you. Please let me know if you have any questions, I am happy to help."
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the Japanese
port town of Nagasaki, on August 9, 1945. Dropped by
the U.S. Army Air Force's B-29 plane 'Bockscar,' the bomb killed more than
70,000 people instantly, with many thousands dying later from effects of
the radioactive fallout. According to AP-Kyodo polling 60 years after
World War II ended, Americans are far more likely than the Japanese to
expect another world war in their lifetimes. Most people in both countries
believe the use of a nuclear weapon first is never justified. Two-thirds
of Americans say the dropping of the bombs was unavoidable, while only 20
percent of Japanese felt that way and three-fourths said it wasn't
necessary