The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Section showing where the landing barges pulled in to unload their cargo. As the wharf was wrecked by bombing, the Liberty ships were unloaded onto these barges in the Bay. The 7th Australian Docks Operating Company did an excellent job, working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, moving cargo. The buildings on the left, badly strafed by Allied planes, are used by Movement Control and Docks Operating Company as Orderly Rooms. The building in the background was used by the Royal Australian Navy as Headquarters. The capture of Madang and its construction as a base, was a purely Australian operation, Madang, New Guinea.
The no.7 Docks Operating Company, Royal Australian Engineers, worked 24hour shifts unloading the Liberty ships, and the Commanding Officer Major R.A Bruce can be given credit for the magnificent work
Depicts a number of men standing in front trucks , while a barge is unloaded onto the beach at Labuan. On the verso is a study of trucks being unloaded from barges. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981),
MADANG, NEW GUINEA. 1944-05-12. AN AMERICAN MERCHANT "LIBERTY" SHIP BEING UNLOADED BY DOCKS CONTROL IN THE HARBOUR. THE UNLOADING IS MADE DIRECTLY INTO A 3 TON TRUCK POSITIONED IN A BARGE ALONGSIDE TH
A depiction of tank and troop landing crafts being unloaded in sections carried as deck cargo on "Liberty" ships from the United States off Admiralty Point, Sydney Harbour.
Depicts a sketch of figures with supplies, including tarpaulins, drums and bags at Labuan, being unloaded from barges. On the verso is an image of trees and supplies. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981)
MADANG, NEW GUINEA. 1944-08-23. SOME OF THE CONSIGNMENT OF 32 TANKS WHICH WERE UNLOADED FROM THE AMERICAN LIBERTY SHIP NORMAN S. COLMAN BY THE 7TH DOCKS OPERATING COMPANY. OF THESE 32 TANKS, 3 SHERMAN
