The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Pegu, Burma. c. May 1945. Informal portrait of Flying Officer J. Callaghan, a Beaufighter aircraft pilot, of Camelon, Stirlingshire, who was kept in solitary confinement for three months. RAF prisoners of war (POWs) who had been held by the Japanese in Rangoon, were finally released by troops of the British 14th Army near Pegu, after they had been made to march from Rangoon to Pegu on their way to Moulmein. As most of the RAF POWs were aircrew, they suffered solitary confinement.
Pegu, Burma. c. May 1945. Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Wheatley (left), fighter pilot, of Alberta, Canada, who was captured when acting in an advisory capacity with General Wingato's 77th Brigade in 1943
Pegu, Burma. c. May 1945. Informal portrait of Flying Officer Allan Jeffrey of East Keswick, Leeds, eating a piece of watermelon after he had been released by troops of the British 14th Army. RAF pris
Burma. 3 April 1944. A 100 foot wooden coaster off Rangoon River under attack by aircraft of No. 177 (Beaufighter) Squadron RAF. Small coasters of about this size are used by the Japanese and accounte
Burma. 3 April 1944. A 100 foot wooden coaster off Rangoon River under attack by aircraft of No. 177 (Beaufighter) Squadron RAF. Small coasters of about this size are used by the Japanese and accounte
Rangoon, Burma. 1945-05-02. Pilots flying low over Rangoon, the capital of Burma, on D-Day, spotted a long red-roofed building with a message "Japs Gone" painted on it in large white letters. The Japa
Salween River, Burma. 19 February 1945. A small wooden coaster heading north at the mouth of the river near Moulmein after being attacked by aircraft of No. 177 (Beaufighter) Squadron RAF. The coaster
