The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A night bombing scene showing the Halifax bomber over a German industrial city of the Ruhr. Red "target indicators" dropped by a Pathfinder are visible - one is falling and the other having fallen - form a circular mass of pin points of red lights on the ground. Sticks of incendiaries, forming long sparkling lines of lights, can be seen where they have just fallen. Vast smoke clouds rise into the night and are visible where they are lit up by the glow. Searchlights weave about the sky in search of the raiders.
The dark figure of a man standing outside his house pointing towards the sky where searchlights are probing and six aircraft are flying. Other figures can be seen at the two windows where the blinds a
A soldier on guard, equipped with rifle, outside a tent housing prisoners. Rae has shown the typical bell tents used by the British Army. The front tent, brilliantly lit with a red warm glow and with
The dark figure of a man standing outside his house pointing towards the sky where searchlights are probing and six aircraft are flying. Other figures can be seen at the two windows where the blinds a
East Germany. 1943-08-17. On the night of 1943-08-17, RAF Bomber Command carried out a successful long-range precision raid on the heavily defended aircraft research and radiolocation establishment at
United States Army Second World War camouflage poster (No.8) depicting a soldier and a young lady sitting on a fence under the evening stars, her eyes are shining out into the night sky like searchlig
Depicts a fairground scene at night in wartime Sydney, probably at Rushcutters Bay. Soldiers and sailors on leave gather around, striking up conversations with groups of girls, some under the bright l
