Oral Histories

The Office of Air Force History conducts an oral history program aimed at capturing the experience of serving and retired members of the RAAF for applied history purposes.

Subjects interviewed under the program include:

• senior figures and leaders, such as ex-Chiefs of Air Force
• personnel returned from recent operational deployments overseas, to collect notable experiences and lessons learnt
• representative members with knowledge of events and developments within specialised areas of RAAF activity, such as engineers, or simulation

To alert serious researchers to the scale and diversity of material available as product of the oral history program, edited extracts from selected interviews and other material collected have been grouped together under subject headings, as indicated. For further information about any items appearing in these extracts, please contact the OAFH.

THE SEARCH FOR SADDAM’S WEAPONS: RAAF inspectors with UNSCOM in the 1990s

HELPING RWANDA RECOVER FROM GENOCIDE: RAAF medics serving with UNAMIR in 1994-95