A group of Australian Empire Air Training Scheme airmen having their first meal on a ship bound for America from Sydney, NSW, 3 September 1940. These men were part of the second group of EATS trainees en route for further training in Canada, and they have most likely been photographed in the dining salon of one of the Matson Line's two regular passenger ships plying the Pacific route between Sydney and California, the Mariposa and the Monterey. When the United States entered the Pacific war in December 1941 both vessels became troopships. AWM 003201
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AWM 003201
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Sydney, Australia
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