The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Aluminium plate with Japanese inscriptions. The plate lists instructions for an hydraulic front shock absorber.
Piece of aluminium taken from Imperial Japanese Navy A6M2 Zero, serial 5349, tail code BII-124, flown by Flight Sergeant Toyoshima Hajime, which made a forced landing on Melville Island on 19 February 1942. The fragment bears six Japanese sentences.
Toyoshima force landed on Melville Island after the aircraft's oil tank was struck by a single .303 calibre bullet during one of his low passes over Darwin Harbour in the first raid of 19 February 1942. He was the first Prisoner of War taken on Australian territory and he was one of the ring leaders of the infamous Cowra 'breakout' in August 1944. Toyoshima was seriously wounded by Australian rifle and machine gun fire and then took his life. He is buried under his false name of Tadao Minami at Cowra war cemetery.
MELVILLE ISLAND, NT. 1942-02-27. THE JAPANESE MITSUBISHI ZERO B11-1 AIRCRAFT FROM THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL NAVY AIRCRAFT CARRIER HIRYU FLOWN BY SERGEANT HAJIME TOYOSHIMA, WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE FIRST AI
Sergeant (Sgt) Hajime Toyoshima (left), the first Japanese prisoner of war (POW). Toyoshima was the pilot of a Japanese Mitsubishi Zero aircraft, A6M2 Zero, tail code BII-124, from the Japanese imperi
The remains of the Japanese Mitsubishi Zero B11-1 aircraft, flown by Sergeant Hajime Toyoshima from the Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carrier Hiryu. Toyoshima participated in the first air raid on D
Long double-loop brass bugle, with a silver mouthpiece fitted with a chain and linked to the body of the bugle. There is damage to the bell end of the bugle, and the reinforcing loop has separated fro
Identification photographs of Sergeant Hajime Toyoshima, the first Japanese Prisoner of War. Toyoshima was the pilot of a Japanese Mitshubishi Zero B11-1 aircraft, from the Japanese Imperial Navy Airc
A traditional Japanese senninbari '1000 stitch belt' made from white cotton. The belt consists of a central hand sewn design of a pair of pink flowers attached to a brown branch. The middle of each
