The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Dobodura, New Guinea. 1943-02-02. Skin, finger nails and charred bones taken from a Japanese prisoner of war (POW) in the Gona area are laid out on a piece of cloth at the Headquarters of the 41st Division, US Army. Japanese custom was to cut off a dead friend's hand, skin it, char the flesh and bones, and send the mementos to the dead man's family. (Donor D. Atkinson)
Soputa, New Guinea. 1943-02-02. Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) captured at Gona and Sanananda rest on the ground and on makeshift beds under a thatched shelter in a stockade. (Donor D. Atkinson)
Soputa, New Guinea. 1943-02-02. Exterior of a makeshift stockade used to house Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) captured in the Gona and Sanananda areas. Note the guard seated on a platform at a corne
Sanananda, New Guinea. 1943-02-02. Two Japanese prisoner of war (POW) officers captured at Gona stand together during the cremation of Japanese killed at Sanananda. They had been brought to the scene
CONCORD, NSW. 1946-03-20. SX32977 SAPPER P. A. YOUNG, WHO LOST THE FINGERS ON HIS LEFT HAND IN A CIRCULAR SAW, CHISELS A CORNER OFF THE COVER OF A BOX HE IS MAKING. SAPPER YOUNG IS HOLDING HIS CHISEL
An altar bearing lighted candles, foliage in vases and a crucifix is set up in a room in which the skulls and bones of victims of a massacre perpetrated by the Viet Cong during the 1968 Tet Offensive
Soputa, New Guinea. 1943-01-31. Interior of a stockade used to house Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) as viewed from the guard's platform on the stockade wall. The Japanese were captured at Gona and S
