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Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II [A35]
The arrival of the first two Lockheed-Martin F-35A Lightning II aircraft at RAAF Williamtown on December 10, 2018, marked the start of operations for Australia's first fifth-generation fighter and paved the way for the Air Force's transition to a...
3 Squadron in WW2
At the outbreak of World War II, number 3 squadron RAAF would be sent to the Middle East tasked with supporting the 6th Division of the Australian Army and would spend the entire war in the Mediterranean theatre, and became part of the Allies’ Desert Air Force (later...
Bobby Gibbes | RAAF 3 Squadron | and the battles at El Alamein
During the year of 1942, a series of dramatic battles unfolded around the remote railway halt of El Alamein, located 120 kilometers west of Alexandria in Egypt. The 9th Australian Division, fighting as a member of the Commonwealth Eighth Army, thwarted a determined...
SABRE: Australia’s Deadliest Jet Fighter
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