The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Playing board designed to accompany the child's game entitled 'Target for Tonight'. The board is a square playing cork or compressed fibre board, wrapped in paper printed with nine illustrated targets contained within circles plus four smaller civilian targets. These appear on both sides; one side shows naval targets (Aircraft carrier, E-Boat, battleship, cruiser, supply ship etc) while the other side depicts ground targets such as patrol storage, Berlin, tank, aerodrome, munition factory and troop concentration.
Target game purchased at David Jones in Sydney by Jim and Annie Rose, of Marrackville, NSW for their son Jim. Jim recalls being given the game as a present for either his birthday or Christmas in 1942-43, when he was 11 years old. He remembers being absorbed with playing the game with his brothers because of the ability to bomb targets.
'Target for Tonight' was one of a number of military related games manufactured by the Metal-Wood Repetitions Company of Manly in Sydney during the war from offcuts and non-essential materials. The use of blue and red ink on the box and playing board are similarly a clue to the game's wartime origins.
Other games they made included 'Popats' (probably another target game) 'Tactics', 'Bomb Em', 'Navy Bobs' (a version of Battleships using a short pool cue), 'Play School', 'Indoor Tennis' and 'Paddy McGinty's Goat'. This game cost 8/11 in December 1944.
Boxed child's game entitled 'Target for Tonight'. The rectangular cardboard box, printed in blue and red, incorporates the title and an illustration of a boy playing the game, adjacent to a depiction
Square playing board designed to fold in half. The reverse of the board is finished in dark green, while the playing surface is printed with a basic race game layout of 67 yellow playing spaces runnin
A dramatised story of a raid on Germany, how it is planned and executed from Commander-In-Chief to Aircraftsman operating under RAF Bomber Command. The operational base Millerton and the target Freiha
A child's wooden board game, in the shape of a tombstone, being square on the bottom edge and curved at the top. It is made from a sheet of softwood with a seperately nailed-on thin raised timber edgi
Handmade painted plywood board for the traditional naval game of Uckers, made aboard HMAS Darwin. The board is a 57cm square, painted white, onto which has been marked an Uckers grid and home squares
Boxed board game, rectangular format, entitled 'Strategy - A Game of Skill', which is printed in red on the lid. The lid is decorated with a black and white photographic image of three officers repres
