The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Sapper E A Hayne, 2/4 Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, examining the wreckage of a japanese baby car found on the Vasey Highway during the OBOE 2 Operation. Note on the left at the rear of the car are Bangalore torpedoes which were lengths of steel piping filled with ezplosives to be pushed under wire entanglements and exploded.
Barbed wire entanglements along the Hindenburg Line, between Bullecourt and Riencourt, demolished by artillery fire in May 1917. Before the Australian attack on 3 May, a good deal of the wire cutting
Group portrait of members of the 4th Field Company of Australian Engineers viewing the wide gap in the wire blown by an experimental 'Bangalore Torpedo'. These 'torpedoes', devised by the Australian E
BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO. 2 JULY 1945. A MATILDA TANK OF 1 ARMOURED REGIMENT LEADING ENGINEERS OF 2/9 FIELD COMPANY, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS, ALONG THE VASEY HIGHWAY DURING THE OBOE 2 OPERATION.
The explosion of an experimental 'Bangalore Torpedo' near Corbie. The torpedo consisted of a long pipe filled with explosives, which was placed under the enemy barbed wire entanglements, and detonated
BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO. 2 JULY 1945. A SECTION OF A JAPANESE ANTI TANK DITCH RUNNING AT RIGHT ANGLES TO VASEY HIGHWAY, FOUND BY MEMBERS OF 1 TANK ATTACK REGIMENT DURING THE OBOE 2 OPERATION.
BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO. 5 JULY 1945. A JAPANESE TANK OBSTACLE AND DITCH RUNNING PARALLEL TO VASEY HIGHWAY BEHIND YELLOW BEACH. IT WAS FOUND BY MEMBERS OF 7 DIVISION DURING THE OBOE 2 OPERATION.
