Papers relating to Tindale's war service as British Intelligence officer and the friendships, in both Australia and the US, which endured through Tindale's life. Tindale was head of AIRIND which was based in Brisbane under General MacArthur and was later transferred to Washington. After the war he was seconded to the Strategic Bombing Survey sent to Japan for four months and then back to Washington. File includes:
- newspaper clippings on advances in war technologies, reports on world war two events, MacArthur in Australia and obituaries of defense personnel
-correspondence, including with men with whom he worked: Vic Robson, Norman Clappison, Robert Graustein, Ernest Duncan, Jake Wayne Fredericks, Walter V. Abrahams, GT Ritchard, Mark H. Brown, Joyce McCallumn, Barry J Turner, Luther Stringham
- 'Japan's World War II Balloon Bomb Attacks on North America' by Robert C. Mikesh. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1973
- signed photograph of Robert Graustein
- 2 copies ofgroup photograph of Directorate of Intel Washington DC, August 1945
- 2 copies of photograph of Directorate of Intelligence with list of personnel
- photograph of 'staff Washington at end of WW2'
- photograph 'One of my Australian WAAF officers in Washington DC 1945'
- list AIRIND staff in Washington
- Tindale's war ration book