The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Madang, New Guinea, 1945-08. Madang Air Strip, showing buildings, aircraft, vehicles, equipment and supplies. A Bristol Beaufort aircraft of No. 15 Squadron RAAF is parked in a hangar (right). One of the aircraft's engines has been removed for maintenance. Standing next to the hangar (far right) are three trucks, one of which is an ambulance with its bonnet up. The vehicle, which has a Red Cross partly visible on its side, may belong to No. 8 Medical Receiving Station (MRS) RAAF. On the other side of the hangar are a small timber cabin and a tent. Another Beaufort aircraft stands behind some trucks (left) while, beside it, stands the fuselage of yet another Beaufort behind stacks of 44-gallon drums containing aircraft fuel. Rising up at rear is the airfield's control tower, with a jeep parked at the base of it. A large building with a thatched roof stands next to the control tower. Part of another ambulance, distinguished by the Red Cross insignia on its side, may lie in the background (far left).
Beersheba, Palestine. 1917-11. Shortly after the capture of Beersheba by the Australian Light Horse, a line of trucks, probably motor ambulances, stands parked on the road leading to the building that
Two 77 Squadron RAAF Meteor jet fighter aircraft parked between sandbag revetments in the airfield's dispersal area. The aircraft, with the missing rudder, is numbered A77-865 and the one behind it A7
A Ford sedan car belonging to an Allied Traffic Control unit parked outside the Townsville Police Station. The car has a loudspeaker mounted on its roof and a sign painted on its bonnet which reads: '
A Ford sedan car belonging to an Allied Traffic Control unit parked outside the Townsville Police Station. The car has a loudspeaker mounted on its roof and a sign painted on its bonnet which reads: '
A Bell Iroquois UH-1H helicopter, possibly a rescue slick fitted with a hoist, code named 'Red Catcher', of Detachment A of 9 Squadron RAAF is parked in a revetment. Other buildings and base faciliti
Soldiers standing next to a Light Horse Field Ambulance wagon, with Red Cross flag flying, which is stopped in front of the 1st Australian General Hospital (AGH). A motorcycle is parked on the right.
