The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
AITAPE, NORTH EAST NEW GUINEA. 1944-04-22. RAAF GROUND PERSONNEL WATCH GREAT CLOUDS OF SMOKE ROLL SKYWARDS FROM A BIG FIRE ON SELEO ISLAND AS THEIR LANDING CRAFT MOVES SHOREWARDS DURING THE EARLY STAGES OF THE AITAPE INVASION. US CARRIER-BASED DIVE BOMBER AIRCRAFT STARTED THE BLAZE FROM A DIRECT HIT.
AITAPE, NORTH EAST NEW GUINEA. 1944-04-22. RAAF GROUND PERSONNEL WATCH GREAT CLOUDS OF SMOKE ROLL SKYWARDS FROM A BIG FIRE ON SELEO ISLAND AS THEIR LANDING CRAFT MOVES SHOREWARDS DURING THE EARLY STAG
Clouds of white smoke from fires started by United States (US) dive bomber aircraft covering the landing of US marines and supplies on Guadalcanal Island.
BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO. C. 1945-06. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING HEAVY SMOKE BILLOWING FROM FIRES STARTED BY RAAF LIBERATOR BOMBER AIRCRAFT. THE RAAF PLAYED A BIG PART IN THE PRE-INVASION BATTERING OF THE OI
Near Bizerte, Tunisia. c. 4 April 1943. Aerial view of the ammunition ship receiving a direct hit and exploding. Bombers were rocked and shaken at 1000 feet when an ammunition ship blew up during an a
Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 1945-03-18. Blazing fiercely and trailing a long plume of smoke, a Japanese dive bomber aircraft, hit by anti-aircraft fire from a US Navy carrier, plunges towards the water lik
Large clouds of smoke billow from the US aircraft carrier Bunker Hill burning furiously after being hit twice within thirty seconds by Japanese kamikaze (suicide) planes. The fires eventually were ext
