The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Burma. c. 1 May 1945. Group Captain H. P. Pleasance DFC and Bar, the Allied Air Forces Assault Force Commander (centre without hat), briefs RAF officers for D-Day on Rangoon. Preparations for the taking of Rangoon harbour by a combined sea and airborne assault had been going on for some time before D-Day. Large forces of naval landing craft and assault barges as well as aircraft carriers, RAF supply-dropping Douglas C47 Dakota aircraft, Thunderbolt aircraft, Spitfire aircraft, and Mosquito aircraft, had been assembled on the southern Arakan coast for the final assault on Rangoon.
Rangoon, Burma. c. 1945. An ox-cart moving along the Prome Road running out of Rangoon. The paddock between the road and the distant Shwe Dagon Pagoda was the first dropping zone in the city for aircr
Tennant, Burma. c. 1945. RAF Douglas C47 Dakota and Curtiss C46 Commando transport aircraft on the airfield. This strip had been opened only the day before and the traffic indicates the closeness of a
Arakan, Burma. c. July 1944. Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) D. K. McDonald DFC of Kogarah, NSW (right centre, with hands on knees) describes the installation of a 500lb bomb beneath the mainplane of a Thun
Arakan, Burma. c. 1945. These pilots of an RAF Mosquito Squadron, wearing their various types of jungle kit, have to cross a wooden bridge to reach the airfield. A magnificent job has been done in the
Arakan, Burma. c. 1945. Back with his RAF Mosquito aircraft squadron which he commands on the Arakan front, Wing Commander (Wg Cdr) A. E. Saunders, the man who was first into Rangoon, shows his ground
Arakan, Burma. c. 1944. Exterior view of basha huts in which RAAF personnel serving with No. 117 (Dakota) Squadron RAF and No. 194 (Dakota) Squadron RAF are living along the Burma front.
