The Empire Air Training Scheme: Identity, Empire and Memory

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Table of contentsAbstract ..................................................................................................... iiiDeclaration ................................................................................................. vPreface ....................................................................................................... viAcknowledgements .................................................................................. viiList of Abbreviations ................................................................................ ixList of Illustrations .................................................................................... xiIntroduction: Evolution of the Image ........................................................ 1CHAPTER 1 Aerial War Comes of Age ............................................... 25CHAPTER 2 This is a Man’s Job: Seduction and Production of theImage ........................................................................................................ 43CHAPTER 3 This is Really It. The Image Under Fire .......................... 74CHAPTER 4 A Diminishing Image .................................................... 103CHAPTER 5 Reconstruction of the Image .......................................... 129CHAPTER 6 Reconciling Contradictory Images ................................ 165CHAPTER 7 The Masculine Image Challenged ................................. 187CHAPTER 8 Reinventing The Image ................................................. 217CONCLUSION The ‘I’ now and the ‘I’ then ...................................... 245BIBLIOGRAPHY .................................................................................. 251viii
List of AbbreviationsABCAWMAIFBCATPCBCCODFCDFMDSOEATSLMFPTSDRAFRAAFRCAFRSLSLVSWPAWAAFVDAustralian Broadcasting CorporationAustralian War MemorialAustralian Imperial ForcesBritish Commonwealth Air Training PlanCanadian Broadcasting CorporationCommanding OfficerDistinguished Flying CrossDistinguished Flying MedalDistinguished Service MedalEmpire Air Training SchemeLack of Moral FibrePost Traumatic Stress DisorderRoyal Air ForceRoyal Australian Air ForceRoyal Canadian Air ForceReturned and Services League of AustraliaState Library of VictoriaSouth West Pacific AreaWomen’s Auxiliary Air ForceVolunteer Decorationix
Page 1: The Empire Air Training Scheme: Ide
Page 4 and 5: nature of the national and individu
Page 6 and 7: PrefaceMy interest in the Empire Ai
Page 11 and 12: List of IllustrationsFigure 1 Postc
Page 13 and 14: from the 1930s, to post war decades
Page 15 and 16: and the RAF, two of the dominion hi
Page 17 and 18: Yet within several decades EATS had
Page 19 and 20: lives. 26 Stuart Ward is one of man
Page 21 and 22: flag, serve the King, and cheerfull
Page 23 and 24: The concepts of Empire, masculinity
Page 25 and 26: form the stories we choose to tell
Page 27 and 28: Australian involvement in EATS. 57
Page 29 and 30: The last source used is the intervi
Page 31 and 32: The focus of Chapter 2 is the initi
Page 33 and 34: contradictions between illusion and
Page 36 and 37: CHAPTER 1Aerial War Comes of AgeWit
Page 38 and 39: destruction of aerial combat was wi
Page 40 and 41: ules the roost.’ 19 More than man
Page 42 and 43: enemy was doomed to suffer continua
Page 44 and 45: emarked on trait of Australian fore
Page 46 and 47: Empire Air Scheme.’ 47 While stro
Page 48 and 49: are also hesitant in confronting th
Page 50 and 51: not just an aircraft but also had a
Page 52: Third, was the human element. Seduc
Page 55 and 56: Frank was one who was delighted to
Page 57 and 58: The images constructed around EATS
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anger and lack of hope persisted.
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Although he did not complete in the
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The ethos of the glamour of serving
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the male body for service as an ess
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promoting the thrill of conquest an
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Figure 7 Wings over Europe 56Public
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only 18 and the concept of the self
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the masculine role. 65 The real val
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country, defence of Empire.’ 71 A
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RAF. 80 Here the entries are obsess
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Of all the days and nights of swotA
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very last moment. When I got back I
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wills giving every thing to our mat
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CHAPTER 3This is Really It. The Ima
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to interpret experiences once they
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studied through representations suc
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1942. One of the Valiant. Till then
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in afternoon and dance in camp. Ele
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for.’ 38 He confessed to a consta
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occasions and, on return to Austral
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Figure 12 Halifax Crew 51In Halifax
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strength is emphasised in the elati
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Death was glorified through the thr
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kills or is killed. It’s exciting
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The images that glorified war were
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egan his diary had become strangely
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memorialise their valor, Bulcock’
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CHAPTER 4A Diminishing Image‘Empi
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efore, makes the devastation of the
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‘The Empire School of Drama’ wh
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Europe, explained the process as on
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original announcement of Australia
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we don’t get the detail. I hope t
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prompted a public debate around the
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administered by a War History Commi
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George Odgers remained silent on ma
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historians’ accounts revealing th
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individuals are important in buildi
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institution of Empire and does not
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the formation of individual identit
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CHAPTER 5Reconstruction of the Imag
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suggestion that control would be su
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attitudes towards the plan. 14 Both
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strengthening Empire relationships,
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Forming the Australian Collective I
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No. 1 Initial Training School This
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Figure 20 Memorial to eight English
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Australian forces for her own defen
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the Scheme in wider military accoun
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like it.’ Coulthard Clarke direct
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writing of history, Peter Stanley a
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and culture of the airmen would be
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Lack of Moral Flying (LMF) at any s
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Moonlight developed into a delibera
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collective memory, in a country ‘
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picture of national values. Announc
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In every generation there emerges a
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military aviation, military aircraf
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CHAPTER 6Reconciling Contradictory
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in forming an identity. 4 This incl
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While such recollections appeared t
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narrative, while acknowledging time
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We were the last boat out of Englan
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without the organisation of the Bri
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arrived home I realized I was in th
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We landed at Melbourne on a Saturda
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national identity. The first was th
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jumps up. So, I said, “You tell h
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I borrowed my own aircraft, and fle
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CHAPTER 7The Masculine Image Challe
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epresented the individual human dim
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The historical culture surrounding
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masculine qualities. 29 The dominan
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would offer an outlet and encourage
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While several Australian psychiatri
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under conditions of stress, as ‘t
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was built, have been relativised an
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Despite arguments that social value
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veterans including airmen, claimed
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People forget what a war was really
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one of the buggers we could see.’
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predominant feeling of powerlessnes
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‘didn’t even know I was in the
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in short, don’t cry. 132 R.W.Conn
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a socially accepted narrative in wh
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of what is not socially acceptable
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qualities that underpinned the stor
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While certain veterans of EATS have
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image, in a patriotic interplay bet
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Talking of blood, as I floated down
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as his mascot.’ He excelled in bo
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The point is not in the story but w
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personally got in on the tail end o
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ush. The airman symbolized the age
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120. We are down because we are all
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Thus, in squadron histories airmen
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459 and nine other squadrons. It wa
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press. I don’t talk about it very
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encapsulated the fundamental comple
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The focus of Anzac commemoration is
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convincing. Responses of veterans w
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CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM INTERVIEWSThe f
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Berglund, Geoffrey. Private Papers
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JOURNALS OF RAAFWINGS 1939-46.RAAF
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, More Charlton London: Longmans &
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Officer, George John. Six O’Clock
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Batchelder, Alf. Only Yesterday: Do
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Buckner, Phillip. Canada and the En
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Crotty, Martin. Making the Australi
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Dudink, Stephan, Karen Hagemann, an
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Granatstein, J.L. Canada at War: Th
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Fingarette, Herbert. Self Deception
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Kansteiner, Wulf. ‘Finding Meanin
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Lotringer, Sylvere. ed, Michael Fou
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Modjeska, Drusilla. Stravinsky’s
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Paris, Michael. Winged Warfare: the
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Sassoon, Siegfried. The Complete Me
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Stoddart, Brian, ‘Sport, Cultural
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Wastell, Collin. Understanding Trau
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Blair, Dale, ‘Beyond the Metaphor
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Griffith Soldier Settlers Memorial.
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