The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 the wharf. A party of thirty airmen covered the northern approaches to the wharf while the remainder of the RAF units and ship's company loaded valuable equipment on board. When it was realised the Japanese at that stage were not going to penetrate as far as the southern tip of Sumatra the corvette was sent in with the RAF salvage party to recover aircraft and technical spares and other stores. (Navy Historical Collection) (Formerly Y051)
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
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. 1942-02-17. View from the bridge of HMAS Burnie, berthed alongside the Oosthaven port facilities which were destroyed to deny their use by the Japanese. In
As a ship approaches the wharf at Ambon harbour, a line of ex Prisoners of War (POWs) wait on the wharf to welcome it. They were subsequently transported to Morotai.
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
