The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Korea, c. 1951-02. Some Korean boys and two soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), stand amidst piles of ration boxes in a ramshackle Korean town. The boxes are standing on a muddy rubble-strewn street amongst patches of snow. One of the ration boxes at the front bears the label 'Nestle' and contains boxes of chocolate. Two of the battalion's jeeps are parked behind the boxes. Most of the buildings in the town are crude structures built of timber and corrugated iron.
An unidentified Australian fatigue party engaged in salving wire from an abandoned prisoner of war cage. Colour patches indicate several soldiers are members of the 2nd Division Headquarters. On the
One of the many homes being built amidst the ruins in the heart of Tokyo. Temporary homes such as these have been constructed by civilians from corrugated iron and other scrap material found amongst r
Bailleul, France, 1919-06-14. A small group of civilian men, women and children (right) gather around the door of a hut erected in the main square of the ruined town to receive rations. Standing (left
Korea, c. 1951-02. A dirt road runs through a desolate-looking Korean town with steep snow-dusted hills rising in the background. Strewn over the ground at right under broken power lines are rubble an
A Japanese woman stands beside one of the many thousands of humpies built amidst the ruins in the heart of Tokyo. Temporary homes such as these have been constructed by civilians from corrugated iron
Astrolabe Bay, Madang, New Guinea, 1945-08. Buildings and tents of Headquarters, RAAF Northern Command (NORCOM), nestle among a forest of tropical palm trees on the shores of a tranquil bay or lagoon.
