The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Cocos Islands. C. 1945-08. Following the Japanese surrender, RAF heavy bomber aircraft dropped much-needed medical supplies to Allied prisoner of war camps in the Dutch East Indies and Singapore area. Leading Aircraftman F. Duffy of Dundee, adjusts the parachute cords after fitting canisters containing medical supplies into the bomb bay of an RAF Liberator bomber operating from the Cocos Islands.
Cocos Island. C. 1945-08. "Free drop" canisters, containing medical supplies for Allied prisoner of war camps in the Dutch East Indies and Singapore area, being loaded into an RAF Liberator bomber air
Cocos Island. C. 1945-08. RAF ground crews on a Cocos Island airstrip loading bomb trolleys with canisters of medical supplies to be dropped on POW camps in the Dutch East Indies and the Singapore are
Gulf of Siam, Thailand. 1945-08-13. A Japanese coaster burning fiercely after an attack by an RAF Liberator aircraft. Japanese shipping in the Gulf of Siam is being continuously attacked by RAF Sunder
Bougainville, Solomon Islands. 1945. Boxes containing .303 inch Mark VII cartridge supplies are dropped by parachute to troops operating in the Puriata-Hongorai area of Bougainville.
MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-04-18. 128574 LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN (LAC) A. R. LITSTER, MELBOURNE, VIC, PUTTING ON BOMB FINS FOR A BOMB LOAD WHICH B-24 LIBERATOR BOMBER AIRCRA
Bougainville, Solomon Islands. 1945. Supplies are dropped by parachute to troops operating in the Puriata-Hongorai River area.
