The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
DILI, PORTUGUESE TIMOR 1945-12. INSIDE THE WRECKED PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT RADIO STATION. JUST PRIOR TO THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION AND DURING THE PERIOD THAT THE AUSTRALIAN AND DUTCH FORCES WERE IN THE AREA, GROUP CAPTAIN DAVID ROSS, AUSTRALIAN CONSUL AT DILI, USED THE GOVERNMENT'S OFFICIAL SET TO SEND AND RECEIVE MESSAGES. HE WAS UNOFFICIALLY AIDED BY A PORTUGUESE RADIO OPERATOR, PATRICIO LUZ, WHO IS SHOWN POINTING OUT THE EARTH LEAD TO LIEUTENANT C. BUSH, OFFICIAL WAR ARTIST. THE LEAD IS ALL THAT REMAINS OF THE STATION EQUIPMENT. (PHOTOGRAPHER SGT K. DAVIS)
DILI, PORTUGUESE TIMOR 1945-12. THE AERIAL OF THE WRECKED PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT RADIO STATION. JUST PRIOR TO THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION AND DURING THE PERIOD THAT THE AUSTRALIAN AND DUTCH FORCES WERE IN
DILI, PORTUGUESE TIMOR 1945-12. THE WRECKED PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT RADIO STATION. JUST PRIOR TO THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION AND DURING THE PERIOD THAT THE AUSTRALIAN AND DUTCH FORCES WERE IN THE AREA, GROU
DILI, PORTUGUESE TIMOR 1945-12-09. PATRICIO LUZ, A RADIO OPERATOR AT THE PORTUGUESE RADIO STATION PRIOR TO THE OCCUPATION. BEHIND HIM IS THE WRECKAGE OF THE JAPANESE SHIP, NANYEI MARU, IN DILI HARBOUR
DILI, PORTUGUESE TIMOR. 1946-01-22. PORTRAIT OF SENHOR PATRICIO LUZ WHO WAS OF GREAT ASSISTANCE TO THE AUSTRALIANS OF SPARROW FORCE DURING 1942. HE ACCOMPANIED THEM ON MANY RAIDS AGAINST THE JAPANESE.
DILI, PORTUGUESE TIMOR. 1946-01-26. GROUP CAPTAIN CHARLES EATON RAAF (LEFT), NEWLY APPOINTED AUSTRALIAN CONSUL TO PORTUGUESE TIMOR, BEING GREETED BY THE GOVERNOR'S AIDE-DE-CAMP (ADC). GROUP CAPTAIN EA
Melbourne, Vic. 1944-05-29. A ground radio operator tuning his set to receive messages from the new radio meteorological balloon used by the RAAF.
