The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Poretta, Corsica, France. April 1944. Informal portrait of Mathea Pittiloni beneath the French Tricolour flag whose honour she upheld during the German occupation of her village. Mathea, though only sixteen, displayed courage and coolness when one night while carrying supplies to a patriot band in the mountains resisting the Germans she had to shoot her way through a German patrol to reach her destination.
Poretta, Corsica, France. April 1944. 12086 Sergeant Leo Moran of Melbourne, Vic, of No. 451 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF makes the acquaintance of a young girl who lives in the vicinity of his camp. She
Poretta, Corsica, France. April 1944. Mathea Pittiloni, the 16 year old girl who exchanged rifle fire with a German patrol during the German occupation of her neighbourhood while carrying supplies at
Port Augusta, Sicily, Italy. March 1944. Beneath the fluttering flag of the French Tricolour, airmen of No. 451 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF on board the French troopship Ville D'Oran on which they re-emb
Corsica, France. May 1944. RAAF Public Relations correspondent, Flight Lieutenant S. B Prior (centre), climbed thousands of feet to reach this mountain eyrie, a well hidden cave which served as headqu
Corsica, France. May 1944. RAAF Public Relations correspondent, Flight Lieutenant S. B Prior (left), climbed thousands of feet to reach this mountain eyrie, a well hidden cave which served as headquar
US Medal for Freedom with palm. Unnamed as issued. Nancy Grace Augusta Wake was born at Wellington, New Zealand on 30 August 1913 though the family moved to Sydney when she was a child. In 1932 Wake
