The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 constructed of thick concrete. A short flight of concrete steps leads up to the entrance to the emplacement (left), while vines and other plants have been allowed to grow over it to help conceal or camouflage it. The emplacement has been overrun and captured by soldiers of the 9th Australian Division on the first day of Operation Oboe One, the Division's attack and landing on Tarakan Island. (Donor Dr Wootten)
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 ent
An unidentified Australian soldier looking through the loophole of a captured machine gun emplacement at Kit and Kat, in the Ypres sector. Although solidly built of concrete slabs, supported by heavy
TARAKAN ISLAND. 1945-08-01. THE LABORATORY AND FILTERED WATER TANKS AT THE TARAKAN WATER WORKS. IT WAS BUILT IN 1938 OF SOLIDLY CONSTRUCTED CONCRETE AND THE ROOF IS COVERED WITH EARTH AND GRASS. THE W
TARAKAN, BORNEO. 1945-05-06. A CONCRETE PILLBOX ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD IN 26 INFANTRY BRIGADE AREA. IT IS BUILT INTO THE SIDE OF ESSEX FEATURE AND COVERS ANZAC HIGHWAY TO THE SOUTH.
TARAKAN, BORNEO. 1945-05-08. THE INTERIOR OF A CAPTURED JAPANESE PILLBOX IN HEADQUARTERS 26 INFANTRY BRIGADE AREA. IT CONTAINED A 20 MILLIMETRE GUN SIGHTED TO COVER RED 1 BEACH.
TARAKAN, BORNEO. 1945-05-08. THE OUTSIDE APPEARANCE OF A CAPTURED JAPANESE PILLBOX ON A SPUR NEAR HEADQUARTERS 26 INFANTRY BRIGADE. IT CONTAINED A 20 MILLIMETRE GUN SIGHTED TO COVER RED 1 BEACH.
