The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Oosthaven, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies. 1942-02-20. Starboard side view of HMAS Ballarat and valuable equipment, including aircraft and technical spares, being loaded on board. The corvette went in to the port with a Royal Air Force salvage party of 53 men when it was realised the Japanese were not at that stage going to continue down through Sumatra to the southern tip of the island. (Navy Historical Collection) (Formerly Y050)
Oosthaven, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies. 1942-02-20. Members of the Royal Air Force armed with tommy guns wait on the deck of the corvette HMAS Ballarat as she moves alongside and is secured to th
Oosthaven, Sumatra. Members of a party of three officers and fifty other ranks of the Royal Air Force (RAF), part of a force sent to Oosthaven in the corvette HMAS Ballarat to salvage air force equipm
Oosthaven, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies. 1942-02. A light tank MkV1B from a Light Tank Squadron of the 3rd Hussars, British Army, on the wharf. The unit had disembarked on 1942-02-14 at the port w
Oosthaven, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies. 1942-02-20. Port facilities destroyed to deny their use by the Japanese. Clouds of smoke rise in the background behind the debris of buildings with their r
Oosthaven, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies. 1942-02-17. Port facilities destroyed to deny their use by the Japanese. In the background smoke and dust rise from buildings whose walls and roofs were de
Oosthaven, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies. 1942-02-17. View from the bridge of HMAS Burnie, berthed alongside the Oosthaven port facilities which were destroyed to deny their use by the Japanese. In
