The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Piece of irregularly shaped steel shrapnel displaying part of a screw thread on one side and a milled surface on the other. The remainder of the piece is randomly damaged and torn. Some small pieces, foreign to the iron, have been fused to one side of the piece.
Japanese bomb fragment collected from HMAHS Manunda. On 19th February, 1942, the hospital ship Manunda, then in port at Darwin, was damaged during the first of two Japanese air raids on Darwin on that day.
This large bomb fragment is was collected by Second Chief Engineer I Jones the morning after the raid when he found the piece of shrapnel, part of the bombcase which had made a direct hit on the ship, embedded in a freezer door in Number 3 Hold.
Piece of fragmentation jacket, retaining milled surface on one side and fragmentation pattern on reverse. This item is a fragment of a Japanese bomb, recovered after the first air-raid on the city
A piece of jagged shrapnel. Mixed up in box with shrapnel recovered from the first Japanese raid on Darwin.
Piece of jagged shrapnel. Recovered from the first Japanese attack on Darwin in 1942.
Piece of twisted shrapnel. From the air attack on Darwin by Japanese in 1942.
Piece of twisted shrapnel. From the air attack on Darwin by Japanese in 1942.
Piece of jagged shrapnel. Recovered from first Japanese attack on Darwin in 1942.
