The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Messina, Sicily, Italy. 1943. The front exterior of the damaged Messina Roman Catholic Cathedral, to the left is the church tower showing a luna calendar clock and planetarium dial, just above the planetarium dial between the two windows is a ball shape representing the moon. In the front is an abandoned Italian truck.
Messina, Sicily, Italy. 1943. A luna calendar clock and planetarium dial on the Messina Roman Catholic Cathedral tower. Above the planetarium between the two windows is a ball shape representing the m
Messina, Sicily, Italy. 1943. A RAAF member stands near an abandoned Italian truck found in the street in front of the Messina Roman Catholic Cathedral and tower. On the side of the tower is a lunar c
Messina, Sicily, Italy. 1943. The bomb damaged interior of the Messina Roman Catholic Cathedral showing rubble lying on the floor and roof missing.
Priolo, Sicily, Italy. July 1943. Exterior of the front entrance to a church in the village near Augusta. Note the bell and clock tower to the right.
An exterior view of the village church, whose steeple, roof and windows have been damaged by shells. The village had been the Headquarters of the Australian Corps during operations in Flanders but wa
Syracuse, Sicily, Italy. 1943. RAAF airmen sit on the front of an army truck, with the marking on the door `3 Sqd/6 RAAF', parked outside the cathedral.
