The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Lingkas area, Tarakan, Netherlands East Indies, 1945-05-01. Thick cement walls and a cement slab roof fortify the entrance to a Japanese bunker which is now partially destroyed. On one side of the entrance, a hole has been blown in the bunker's cement wall revealing the metal mesh that supported it. The remnant wooden walls of a wrecked Japanese gun emplacement stand on top of the hillock above the bunker, while smoke billows from a fire or explosion in the background (right). Both the bunker and the gun emplacement above it have been destroyed on the first day of Operation Oboe One, in the attack and landing on Tarakan Island by troops of the 9th Australian Division. (Donor Dr Wootten)
Lingkas beach area, Tarakan, Netherlands East Indies, 1945-05-01. The twin barrels of an anti-aircraft gun point upwards from a Japanese gun emplacement or pillbox whose protective walls are solidly c
The rear view of No 167 Radar (Ground Controlled Interception) Station, RAAF, erected at Lingkas on the island of Tarakan in 1945. Part of the structure is supported by an existing concrete slab of a
TARAKAN ISLAND, BORNEO. 1946. A WRECKED JAPANESE ANTI AIRCRAFT GUN EMPLACEMENT ON THE "MILKO" FEATURE.
A bunker strengthened with wooden revetments and protected by sandbags forms part of the defences of the 1RAR camp at Bien Hoa Air Base. Above the entrance to the bunker, a 7.62mm M60 General Purpose
BALIKPAPAN. 1945. THE ENTRANCE TO A JAPANESE GUN EMPLACEMENT, WITH THE GUN STILL IN PLACE.
TARAKAN ISLAND, BORNEO. 1946. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS GROUPED AROUND A DUMMY JAPANESE ANTI AIRCRAFT GUN AND EMPLACEMENT ON THE "WILL'S" FEATURE.
