The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun position manned by the 2/9th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Australian Artillery, on the main fighter runway at Gili Gili airfield. A Kittyhawk fighter can be seen coming in to land. Included in the photograph are left to right VX36335 Jack Quick, gun layer (seated on the left), VX28384 Robert (Bob) Waterman, ammunition supplier and NX22470 B B Boughton or Buck Bearsford (?) and gun layer NX16412 Edward Preece (with binoculars on the far right).
A Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun position, A Troop, 2/9th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), on the main fighter runway at Gili Gili airfield, Milne Bay. A P-40E-1 Kittyhawk
CABOOLTURE AREA, QLD. 1945-01-31. A BOFORS 40MM ANTI AIRCRAFT GUN, NO. 2 GUN, B TROOP, 7 LIGHT ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY, COMING INTO ACTION TO PROTECT 3.7 INCH GUNS WHICH ARE BEING USED AS FIELD PIECES D
MILLINGIMBI ISLAND, NT. 1943-11-18. SPITFIRE Mk V AIRCRAFT OF NO. 452 SQUADRON, RAAF 'SHOOTING UP' A 40MM BOFORS ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN POST MANNED BY TROOPS OF THE 224TH AUSTRALIAN LIGHT ANTI-AIRCRAFT BAT
A HEAVY 3.7 INCH ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN IN POSITION ON THE SHORES OF MILNE BAY NEAR GILI GILI, MANNED BY A CREW OF THE 2/6TH HEAVY ANTI-AIRCRAFT BATTERY, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY.
UNITY BEACH, QLD. 1944-11-13. A BOFORS 40MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN MANNED BY TROOPS OF 2/11 LIGHT ANTI-AIRCRAFT REGIMENT IN POSITION ON THE BEACH. A LANDING SHIP, INFANTRY IS BEACHED AT THE BACKGROUND. [UN
ON BOARD HM TRANSPORT LACONIA, AT SEA. 1942-03-19. BOAT DRILL FOR A.I.F. TROOPS ON BOARD HM TRANSPORT LACONIA, EN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA FROM THE MIDDLE EAST. NOTE THE 40MM BOFORS ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN IS MAN
