The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Burma. c. 1942-03. RAAF members packing suitcases and sitting inside a thatched shelter in the final stage of an evacuation. Allied air forces were withdrawn from Burma when Japanese ground forces captured Rangoon on 8 March 1942. Left to right outside the hut: Phil Graebner (Gunner Ken Gardiner's observer), Gunner Cliff Briggs, Gunner Ken Gardiner and McDade. The man reading inside the hut is McDade's observer Don Page who was killed a few days after this photograph was taken. (Original print housed in the AWM Archive Store).
Kenya, North Africa. c.1942. Gunner Ken Gardiner, Gunner Cliff Briggs and Tony Watson, all members of the RAAF, standing in a field while out shooting. (Original print housed in the AWM Archive Store)
Bill Corbett RAAF, Gunner Cliff Briggs' observer (navigator), at work in flight plotting a course near his instruments inside the aircraft. (Original print housed in the AWM Archive Store).
Kenya (?), North Africa. c.1942. RAAF members Gunner Cliff Briggs (404288 Clifford George Briggs?), Gus Allen and Observer (Navigator) Bill Corbett, in flying gear standing outside in front of their t
A bomb shelter beneath a Japanese jungle hut. Japanese forces occupied Bouganville from April 1942 until the allies advanced to Bougainville Island in late 1943. Combat operations ceased with the surr
Port Moresby, New Guinea. Members of the concert party called the "Moresby Microbes" standing on the stage in the Rec[reation] Hut in which they performed. There are plants and lights on each side of
(A voice over sound track has been added to the Digital Betacam version). Activities of the 67 and 73 Mobile Anti- Aircraft Searchlight Batteries in New Guinea 1942-1943. Opening titles "Looking for t
