The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Melville Island, 1944-10. An unidentified Indigenous man and some of the buildings of the Snake Bay settlement (Milikapiti) in the background. This settlement of Tiwi people was run by John Gribble for the Western Australian Native Affairs Department. When Japan entered the war John Gribble was appointed as a coastwatcher and commissioned as a Lieutenant in the RANVR. Patrols by Aboriginal people from this settlement captured the first Japanese prisoner of war, Sergeant Hajime Toyoshima from the Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carrier Hiryu, whose Zero aircraft was damaged over Darwin and crashed on Melville Island. The building with the high-pitched bark roof is typical of the structures used by Aboriginal people in the settlement.
The remains of the Japanese Mitsubishi Zero B11-1 aircraft, flown by Sergeant Hajime Toyoshima from the Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carrier Hiryu. Toyoshima participated in the first air raid on D
Identification photographs of Sergeant Hajime Toyoshima, the first Japanese Prisoner of War. Toyoshima was the pilot of a Japanese Mitshubishi Zero B11-1 aircraft, from the Japanese Imperial Navy Airc
Sergeant (Sgt) Hajime Toyoshima (left), the first Japanese prisoner of war (POW). Toyoshima was the pilot of a Japanese Mitsubishi Zero aircraft, A6M2 Zero, tail code BII-124, from the Japanese imperi
Lieutenant (Lieut) Lewin Arthur Jones RANVR from Subiaco, Western Australia (right) is driving in a peg held by Lt Reginald John Hardstaff RAN from Northwood, NSW as members of the crew from HMAS More
MELVILLE ISLAND, NT. 1942-02-27. THE JAPANESE MITSUBISHI ZERO B11-1 AIRCRAFT FROM THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL NAVY AIRCRAFT CARRIER HIRYU FLOWN BY SERGEANT HAJIME TOYOSHIMA, WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE FIRST AI
Melville Island, 1944-10. A group of Aboriginal people from the Snake Bay settlement display some of the ducks and geese shot on an expedition during which they led some officers and sailors from HMAS
