The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
ALLIED AIRMEN IN NEW GUINEA. THREE AUSSIE AIRMEN WATCH NATIVES MAKING A CANOE. THE NATIVES PRIZE THESE HIGHLY, BUT AFTER THEY HAD BROUGHT IN THE BODIES OF FOUR AUSTRALIANS KILLED IN A PLANE CRASH THEY CUT UP SEVERAL OF THEIR CANOES TO MAKE COFFINS. THEY WAS NO TIMBER AVAILABLE. (NEGATIVE BY BOTTOMLEY).
THE GRAVE OF FOUR AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN "SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA". ON THE GRAVE IS A PIECE OF MATERIAL FROM THEIR PLANE ON WHICH IS WRITTEN "HERE LIE THE BODIES OF W. H. R. CAMPBELL, F. EKINS, A. SHAKESPE
Middle East, North Africa. 27 May 1942. Four Nazi airmen marching between guards in a prisoner of war (POW) camp were the crew of a Junkers JU 88 bomber aircraft. They attempted to make a night raid i
Early in the morning of 5th April, in South Bougainville, a sizeable enemy force attacked the HQ 25th Australian Infantry Battalion and a platoon of "C" Company. Sixty men were cut off from their comm
Papuan natives assisting men of the 2/6th Australian Independent Company to unload their equipment from the 5th US Army Air Force (USAAF) C-47-DL transport plane ("Maxine" Serial Number 41-18585) in w
LABUAN, NORTH BORNEO. 1945-11-16. THIS OLD CANNON, BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN CARRIED ON A FIFTEENTH CENTURY WARSHIP, WILL BE TAKEN TO JAPAN BY MEMBERS OF THE RAAF OCCUPATION FORCE. SHORTLY AFTER THE ALLIE
Poix, France. c. 1980. Aerial view of the Church of St Denis where members of a crew of a No. 218 Squadron Stirling bomber are buried in the cemetery. They died when the aircraft crashed on 1 May 1944
