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LABUAN ISLAND, BORNEO. 1945-06-23. HUGE BOMB CRATERS, FILLED WITH WATER, WERE A PROBLEM FOR RAAF ENGINEERS. 126514 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT P. F. NELLIGAN, ADELAIDE, SA, (SECOND FROM LEFT) IS TAKING A SURVEY OF WATER LEVEL IN A BOMB CRATER, TO DETERMINE THE DEPTH OF DRAINAGE NECESSARY. ASSISTING HIM ARE: LEFT TO RIGHT: 30514 LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN (LAC) F. A. KEMP, HOBART, TAS; 138563 LAC F. BROOKS, LITHGOW, NSW; 138598 LAC S. J. HAUGHTON, NEWCASTLE, NSW. IN THE BACKGROUND IS A WRECKED JAPANESE BOMBER AIRCRAFT, ALLIED CODE NAME BETTY.
Gasmata, New Britain. Wreckage of a Japanese twin-engine Mitsubishi bomber aircraft, Allied Code name Betty, lies in a water-filled bomb crater, evidence of Allied air attacks at Gasmata before the ba
Gove, NT. 1945-06-29. Checking the loading of depth charges into a Lockheed Ventura bomber aircraft of No. 13 Squadron is the squadron bombing leader 400650 Flight Lieutenant F. G. Dick of Neutral Bay
Gove, NT. 1945-06-29. A Lockheed Ventura bomber aircraft of No. 13 Squadron RAAF being armed with depth charges prior to take off to give aerial cover to convoys of ships north of Australia. Left to r
Balikpapan, Borneo. 1945-07-26. Leading Aircraftman Charlie Griffiths of Camperdown, NSW, a member of an RAAF Airfield Construction Squadron working a pneumatic pump emptying bomb craters filled with
New Guinea. Two soldiers looking over full cases of ammunition and 75mm shells dumped into one of our bomb craters and covered with palm leaves. When the Japanese left the Sanga River in a hurry they
NEAR BRUNEI BAY, BORNEO. 1945-06-09. VETERANS OF TWO OTHER AMPHIBIOUS INVASIONS, AT TADJI AND AT NOEMFOOR, THESE MEMBERS OF NO. 61 AIRFIELD CONSTRUCTION WING RAAF LOOKED ON THE LABUAN ASSAULT AS JUST
