HMP WW2 Bio brief

HOWARD MORRIS POWERS

Service Number - 162236
Date of birth - 10 Mar 1926
Place of birth - NTH SYDNEY NSW
Place of enlistment – BROOKVALE, SYDNEY
Date of Enlistment - 24th March 1944

4th S.T.T. & 5th S.T.T.

Howard Morris Powers 1926 - 1991

Warren and myself think it could be a Avro Anson.
England sent about 1000 of these planes to Australia

Pic below- Howard standing next to a plane.
Pic at bottom... girl on the wing – we dont know who she is?

Howard Powers Snr far right of both photos

Outdoor group portrait of 4th STT Bugle Band of July 1944
at RAAF No 4 School of Technical Training located

at the Exhibition Building, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia

Outdoor group portrait of ??? of July 1944
at RAAF No 4 School of Technical Training located
at the Exhibition Building, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia

Howard Powers Snr - Second row far left

Wirraway A20-261

Howard Powers Snr running up a Wirraway at Uranquinty.
Warren Powers tells the story of Howard who was instructed to ferry the plane from one side of the
airport to the hanger. Then run the engine for 30 minutes with a special blended fuel ready to put the
plane into storage. This photo was taken on the 13th March 1945 during the special fuel burn

History of this plane

Rec 1`AD ex CAC 30.04.1941
In service with 1st SFTS 09/05/1941 (Service Flying Training School)
Accident 22/12/1941 when aircraft landed with under carriage retracted at Point Cook.
Pilot was LAC P G Sadler Ser#0266
Repaired.
Rec 6th SFTS 03/03/1942 Rec 7th SFTS 30/03/1942.
Landing accident when wing tip struck ground at Deniliquin 07/11/1942.
Pilot was Sgt D P Pullen.
Repaired 11/07/1943
Rec at Clyde, engineering for overhaul.
Returned 7th SFTS 20/08/1943.
Transferred to 5th SFTS storage 13/03/1945 Howard Powers Snr performed this transfer
A20-261 was placed into category C storage 17/08/1948
Placed into storage at 7th SFTS 19/08/1948
Converted to components on the 20/10/1951

Serial numbers - A20-235 to A20-434

Two hundred CA-8 series Wirraways were built, improved version of CA-7.
For more on Wirraways goto ...
http://www.warbirdsonline.com.au/2014/03/28/cac-wirraway-ww11-operations/

The Exhibition building that most the Australian forces had their photo taken on the
steps as a back drop. The building was demolished in 1962 by the Government of the
day to make way for a Uni building. I think the SA government could have done a bit
better than their efforts.

Howard was posted at Uranquinty (Wagga Wagga) were he was discharged in 1946

Uranquinty during World War II (Wiki )

RAAF Base Uranquinty
Uranquinty has a distinguished record in relation to World War II. At the end of 1940 Uranquinty was chosen as the base for No. 5
Service Flying Training School RAAF (5SFTS) for intermediate and advanced training of Empire Air Trainees. The site chosen for 5
SFTS was especially suitable because it was on the main Sydney to Melbourne railway line and comprised just over 1,000 acres
(4 km2) of land that was owned by the Lewington family. Possession of this land was taken under National Security (General)
Regulation 54 which existed during the War years
On 7th April 1942, a Wirraway of 5SFTS crashed during an instrument training flight at the Air Ground Gunnery Range, killing both
crew members
Also during World War 2, Uranquinty was the location of RAAF No.17 Inland Aircraft Fuel Depot (IAFD), completed in 1942 and closed
in 29 August 1944. Usually consisting of 4 tanks, 31 fuel depots were built across Australia for the storage and supply of aircraft fuel
for the RAAFand the US Army Air Forces at a total cost of £900,000 ($1,800,000).[5]
Uranquinty RAAF Post Office was open from 16 December 1941 until 14 September 1946 dating the period of the operation of the
base with some accuracy.[2]

The "main street" of No. 5 Service Flying Training School at Uranquinty in 1943

Warren Powers said Dad (Howard Powers Snr) knew the two pilots that were Killed at Uranquinty.
We will need to wait for HMP RAAF records to establish if he was there at this time.

Google maps 2017 – You can still see the shape of the old RAAF base