Allied Air Force Headquarters, Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, Vic, during WW2

Following the arrival of General Douglas MacArthur in Australia on 22 March 1942, Lieutenant General Brett was appointed the Commander of the Allied Air Forces in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA) on 20 April 1942.

General Brett took command of all Allied Air force (AAF) tactical units and associated service elements of the U.S. Army then in Australia, and operational control, except for training, of the RAAF and the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force.

Allied Air Headquarters, SWPA was initially located in the Victoria Barracks in Melbourne, Victoria.

On 20 July 1942, Allied Air Force Headquarters relocated to the AMP Building in Queen Street, Brisbane, Queensland where General MacArthur had re-established his GHQ, SWPA.

Lieutenant General Brett

ALLIED AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS
Air Chief Marshall Sir Charles Burnett, RAAF
Chief of Air Staff	Air Vice Marshall Bostock, RAAF
Deputy Chief of Staff	Colonel Edwin S. Perrin, USAAF
Senior Air Staff Officer	Brigadier General Ralph Royce, USAAF
Director of Intelligence	Air Commodore Joseph C. Hewitt, RAAF
Director of Operations	Colonel Ross G. Hoyt, USAAF
Assistant Director of Operations	Wing Commander Walters, RAAF
Director of Communications	Group Captain Cam S. Wiggins, RAAF
Director of Plans	Colonel Eugene L. Eubank, USAAF
Assistant Director of Plans	Wing Commander Hancock, RAAF
Director of Defence	Group Captain F.R.W. Scherger, RAAF

Air Board Chief of Air Staff AIr Vice Marshall Jones, etc		Allied Air Force Headquarters		Area Commands RAAF North Eastern Eastern Southern Western North Western

	US Army Air Corps	RAAF Service Squadrons, ?, Training Units	Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, Air Force

	Operations & Plans		Intelligence & Signals

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