ADAMS, Philip Goodrich
| Service Number: | 402835 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 November 1940, Sydney, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Squadron Leader |
| Last Unit: | No. 10 Squadron (RAAF) |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 26 March 1919 |
| Home Town: | Corrimal, Wollongong, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Wollongong High School, Newington College Stanmore |
| Occupation: | Solicitor / Journalist |
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World War 2 Service
| 11 Nov 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Squadron Leader, 402835, No. 10 Squadron (RAAF), Sydney, NSW | |
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| 25 Feb 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Squadron Leader, 402835 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Philip Audley ADAMS
Husband of June Mary ADAMS, 24 High Street, Middlesex, England
Philip enjoyed the sports of Cricket, Football, Tennis, Swimming and Field Athletics.
He flew Sunderland I II III & IV aircraft.
DFC - 28 September 1943
"This Officer has completed a very large number of operational sorties and has displayed great skill, determination and devotion to duty. On several occasions when on patrol, his aircraft developed engine trouble but Flight Lieutenant Adams has successfully flown back to base - on one occastion he was six hundred miles from base."
“Hot , humid, rough and tough”, that is how Pilot Officer P.G. Adams, of Corrimal, NSW describes life with the Air Force in West Africa. With Pilot Officer W. Sprott, of Lakemba, NSW, he is serving in a Sunderland squadron engaged on Atlantic patrol work.
Operating from a station still under construction, with mangrove swamps extending all round them, there is little for the crews to do. There are no social amenities, occasional swims when off duty, and pictures twice a week form the main amusements.
“News from home is very scarce indeed”, writes Pilot Officer D.M. Hannah, also stationed at a West African base. “There are quite a few of us out here on the coast and we are all anxious to hear what is going on at home.”
Tropical heat, boredom, fever, loneliness – just a few of the enormously varied conditions that men of the R.A.A.F. are ready to face when they leave Australia for service overseas. But whether it is in the Artic snow of Iceland or the malaria infested swamps of West Africa, Australian airmen are serving cheerfully and winning the admiration of all.