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A group portrait of the members of two training courses conducted at No. 1 Operational Training Unit in 1942

No. 1 Operational Training Unit (1OTU) was a Royal Australian Air Force operational training unit of World War II. 1OTU was formed in December 1941 to train pilots, air observers and wireless operator/air gunners for multi-engine squadrons. The unit was equipped with Hudson, Beaufort, Oxford and Anson aircraft. While 1OTU was primarily a training unit, it did play an active role in the war, with a detachment from the unit providing air transport in Papua and other aircraft conducting anti-submarine patrols off the Australian coast. 1OTU was disbanded in December 1945.