Virtual Museum - ATC
Observer Magazines
The ATC (Air Training Corps) Cadets in New Zealand produced a wartime
magazine called The Observer.
It appears that the magazine was initially produced by the Christchurch
Wing in 1942 and then adopted nationally in the July 1944 issue, when
"Volume 1, No. 1" was produced. Given that it was a continuation
of the Christchurch Wing's magazine, the next volume reverted back to
the original sequence and appeared as "Vol 3 - No. 2".
Content of the magazine varied from editorial, history of the RNZAF,
accounts of tramping trips and camps, letters to the editor, aircraft
identification, details of wartime pilots and awards, engines, guns,
soaring, meteorology, aircraft development, etc.
Vol 1,
No.6 Jan., Feb., March, 1943
Vol 1,
No. 7, April-May, 1943
Vol 1,
No. 8, May-June, 1943
Vol 2.,
No. 1, June-July, 1943
Volume 2,
No. 2 1943 - Special Recruiting Issue, August 1943
Volume 2,
No. 3 1943 – September 1943
Volume 2,
No. 4 1943 – December 1943
Volume 2,
No. 5 1944 – February 1944
Volume 2.
No. 6 1944 – April-May 1944
Vol 1
(should be Vol 3), No 1 July 1944
Vol 3, No
2 August 1944
Vol 3, No
3 September 1944
Vol 3, No
4 October 1944
Vol 3, No
5 Nov-Dec 1944
Vol 3, No
6 Jan-Feb 1945
Vol 3, No
7 March 1945
