The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Rabaul, New Britain, 1945-10. A row of huts stands among tropical palm trees at a former Japanese prisoner-of-war (POW) camp for captured Indian soldiers from the Punjab. The huts, roofed with matting, are where the POWs lived. In front of the huts, groups of POWs mingle with members of an Australian recovery party which is in the process of liberating the men from their Japanese captors. Above the huts (right), electric power lines run through the trees.
Rabaul, New Guinea, 1945-10. A long thatch-roofed hut stands on the shores of a bay at a former Japanese prisoner-of-war (POW) camp for captured Indian soldiers of the 1st Hyderabad Regiment. A flagpo
Astrolabe Bay, Madang, New Guinea, c. 1944. Buildings and tents of Headquarters, RAAF Northern Command (NORCOM), nestle among rows of tropical palm trees on the shores of Astrolabe Bay. The trunk of t
Keravia Bay, Rabaul, New Britain, 1945-10. Several wrecked Japanese barges which have been bombed by allied aircraft lie half-submerged along the shores of a bay fringed with tropical palm trees.
Rabaul, New Britain, 1945-10. A covered reviewing platform built of bamboo and roofed with matting stands on the parade ground of a former Japanese prisoner-of-war (POW) camp for captured Nationalist
Oesapa Besar, Timor. 1942. An Australian Prisoner of War (POW), possibly of the 2/12th Field Ambulance, stands beside a shelter set among the palm trees. Soldiers of Sparrow Force were imprisoned at t
Madang, New Guinea, 1945-08. At Headquarters, RAAF Northern Commnad (NORCOM), the RAAF sergeants' and airmen's tents stand among tropical palm trees on the shores of Astrolabe Bay. Clothing, towels an
