The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
From the centre to the bottom centre of this painting we see an aerial view of a river that forks at the bottom, and three planes in flight in the centre. Clouds cover the rest of the composition. It was painted by Murch in Darwin soon after his arrival in the Northern Territory. He was inspired to create this piece during a fortnight spent with the R.A.A.F. in October 1942. It shows a 'banking' Hudson bomber formation over the mouth of the Daly River, from a rotated viewpoint of one of the bombs.
This oil painting depicts the wing of an airborne plane extending from the lower right corner to the centre of the composition. Beyond are two flying planes and clouds with a birds eye view of hills,
Jan Senbergs collaborated with Col Madigan, one of the Armidale survivors to create this work which forms part of a series of ten paintings depicting the sinking of HMAS Armidale on 1 December 1942. T
This painting depicts a "spotter" plane dropping a message to a RAAF Air Sea Rescue Launch carrying out a rescue in an inland Papuan river. A plant with colourful red flowers appears down the right ed
Prisoners standing in a long line passing water back from the river. A large boat dominates the centre of the composition, with trees in the background. Several men, clothed only to the waist, are pas
A river scene, with Thai boats, background mountains and river bank vegetation. Two figures in left foreground are possibly fishing. There is a section of a timber fence running down to the water at c
Depicts a group of sappers preparing to construct a boom across the Jaba River to arrest the force of logs coming downstream that could damage the piers of the bridge. Mt Bagana, an active volcano nic
