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Photograph 145670 Second World War, 1939-1945Shimogahara, Japan. 1948-06-04. An elevated view of BCOF farm buildings in a fertile valley.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Shimogahara, Japan. 1948-06-04. Drums of phosphates and fertilisers imported from Australia for use on BCOF farm.
Shimogahara, Japan. 1948-06-04. An elevated view of BCOF farm buildings in a fertile valley.

Shimogahara, Japan. 1948-06-04. BCOF farm operates its own sawmill. Boards are cut from logs grown in the locality and from these the carpenters make crates for packing the vegetables for Kure.

Shimogahara, Japan. 1948-06-04. A Japanese worker stacking pine saplings in drums ready to be fired in an oven for charcoal which is then used in BCOF blacksmiths shops.

Shimogahara, Japan. 1948-06-04. This mountain dominates the scene near the BCOF farm. Across the Oze River are barley fields.

Shimogahara, Japan. 1948-06-04. VX500560 Private A. C. Patterson of Terang, Vic, supervises Japanese gardeners clearing dense low scrub and dwarf bamboo at BCOF farm.

Shimogahara, Japan. 1948-06-04. Seedlings grown in seedbeds on the BCOF farm, include gum trees intended originally for the re-decoration of Hiroshima but now destined for the British War Cemetery at
