About me
- Name:
- Bill Halliwell
- Nickname:
- raafbloke
- Country:
Australia- Town:
- Hobart
- Member since:
- November 17, 2013
- Communities:
- papermates.net (Paper modeling)gundammates.com (Gundam modeling)railwaymates.com (Train modeling)rcmates.net (RC modeling)
ex-RAAF; retired journo; military doco maker
I'm working on two TV documentaries: the first is about Australia's first and only Field Marshal, Sir Thomas Albert Blamey; and then General Douglas MacArthur. I'm particularly interested in the aircraft
and any form of transport used by these wartime leaders.
Then, General Tom Blamey used a Lockheed C-60 Lodestar for most of the war, to get around Australia, when he was here and, for the second half of the war MacArthur arranged for a B-24 Liberator for him as he needed to cover longer distances a lot faster in an aircraft that had some armed protection.
MacArthur flew in, mainly new, B-17s He was known to send aircraft back if they arrived and he didn't think they were 'new enough'.
All his personal aircraft were, ironically, called 'Baatan' mostly remembered, then and now, for a 'death march' of US and Allied POWS.
I would really appreciate any photographs, diagrams, model details of any OTHER aircraft, staff cars, Jeeps or even trucks used by Blamey or MacArthur.
You can contact me through this site or directly at HalliwellMedia@southernphone.com.au
You can find a few pictures of Tom Blamey's Lodestar, and his aircrew, on our website:
www.TheBlameyEnigma.com.au
Thanks very much.
Bill Halliwell
raafbloke
and any form of transport used by these wartime leaders.
Then, General Tom Blamey used a Lockheed C-60 Lodestar for most of the war, to get around Australia, when he was here and, for the second half of the war MacArthur arranged for a B-24 Liberator for him as he needed to cover longer distances a lot faster in an aircraft that had some armed protection.
MacArthur flew in, mainly new, B-17s He was known to send aircraft back if they arrived and he didn't think they were 'new enough'.
All his personal aircraft were, ironically, called 'Baatan' mostly remembered, then and now, for a 'death march' of US and Allied POWS.
I would really appreciate any photographs, diagrams, model details of any OTHER aircraft, staff cars, Jeeps or even trucks used by Blamey or MacArthur.
You can contact me through this site or directly at HalliwellMedia@southernphone.com.au
You can find a few pictures of Tom Blamey's Lodestar, and his aircrew, on our website:
www.TheBlameyEnigma.com.au
Thanks very much.
Bill Halliwell
raafbloke
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Favorite scales
1:321:35
1:48
1:72
1:96
Interests
Aircraft
Aermacchi MB-326 Aircraft » Jets | 
1957–Now
Airspeed AS.10 Oxford Aircraft » Propeller | 
1937–1960
Armstrong Whitworth AW.681 Hawker Siddeley HS.681 Aircraft » Jets | 1962–1965
Avro Anson Aircraft » Propeller | 1936–1968
Avro Lancaster Aircraft » Propeller | 1941–1963
Avro Lincoln Aircraft » Propeller | 1944–1967
BAC One-Eleven Aircraft » Jets | 1963–2019
Bell P-39 Airacobra Aircraft » Propeller | 
1938–1951
Bell UH-1Y Venom Aircraft » Helicopters | 2001–Now
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Aircraft » Propeller | 1941–1959
Boeing H-47 Chinook Aircraft » Helicopters | 1961–Now
Bristol Beaufighter Aircraft » Propeller | 1939–1960
Bristol Blenheim Bristol Bolingbroke Aircraft » Propeller | 1935–1944
CAC Boomerang Aircraft » Propeller | 1942–1946
Consolidated B-24 Liberator Aircraft » Propeller | 1941–1968
Consolidated PBY Catalina Aircraft » Propeller | 1936–1957
Curtiss P-40 Warhawk Kittyhawk Aircraft » Propeller | 1938–1958
Dassault Mirage III Aircraft » Jets | 
1956–Now
De Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou Aircraft » Propeller | 
1958–Now
De Havilland DH 100 Vampire Aircraft » Jets | 1945–1979
De Havilland DH 106 Comet Aircraft » Jets | 1949–1997
De Havilland DH 98 Mosquito Aircraft » Propeller | 1941–1963
Douglas A-20 Havoc DB-7 Boston Aircraft » Propeller | 1941–1949
Douglas DC-3 Aircraft » Propeller | 1935–Now
Douglas DC-6 Aircraft » Propeller | 1947–Now
Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II Warthog Aircraft » Jets | 1972–Now
GAF Jindivik Aircraft » Jets | 1952–Now
General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark Aircraft » Jets | 1967–2020
Gloster Meteor Aircraft » Jets | 1944–1980
Grumman F6F Hellcat Aircraft » Propeller | 1943–1960
Handley Page Halifax Aircraft » Propeller | 1940–1960
Hawker Hurricane Aircraft » Propeller | 1937–1950
Hawker Sea Fury Aircraft » Propeller | 1945–1966
Hawker Siddeley HS-748 Avro 748 Aircraft » Propeller | 1960–Now
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod Aircraft » Jets | 1969–2011
Lockheed C-130 Hercules Aircraft » Propeller | 1954–Now
Lockheed C-141 Starlifter Aircraft » Jets | 1963–2006
Lockheed C-5 Galaxy Aircraft » Jets | 1968–Now
Lockheed F-35 Lightning II Aircraft » Jets | 2006–Now
Lockheed Hudson Aircraft » Propeller | 1939–Now
Lockheed L-1011 Tristar Aircraft » Jets | No range
Lockheed L-188 Electra Aircraft » Propeller | 1952–Now
Lockheed P-2 Neptune Aircraft » Propeller | 1950–1980
Lockheed P-3 Orion Aircraft » Propeller | 1958–Now
Lockheed PV-1 Ventura Aircraft » Propeller | 1942–1960
McDonnell Douglas F-18 Hornet Aircraft » Jets | 1983–2000
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II Aircraft » Jets | 1958–2021
North American B-25 Mitchell Aircraft » Propeller | 1940–1979
North American F-82 Twin Mustang Aircraft » Propeller | 1945–1953
North American F-86 Sabre Aircraft » Jets | 1949–1994
North American P-51 Mustang Aircraft » Propeller | 1942–1984
Short Sunderland Aircraft » Propeller | 1937–1967
Supermarine Spitfire Aircraft » Propeller | 1938–1961
Supermarine Walrus Aircraft » Propeller | 1936–1951
Vickers Viscount Aircraft » Propeller | 1948–Now
Ships
Submarine Gato-class Ships » Submarines | 1941–1969
Submarine Type IX Ships » Submarines | 
1938–1945
Submarine Type XXI Ships » Submarines | 1944–1982
Vehicles
M113 Carrier, Personnel, Full Tracked, Armored Vehicles » APC/IFV's | 1960–Now
Rosenbauer Panther Vehicles » Trucks | 
1988–Now
- Other topics:
- Aircraft Boeing B-24 Liberator » No topic page
Lockheed Lodestar » No topic page
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