The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Burma. 22 May 1945. Since the fall of Rangoon heavy RAF Liberator aircraft of the Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command, have been concentrating on cutting all lines of communications for the Japanese troops retreating from south eastern Burma. Railways and bridges, rolling-stock and marshalling yards have all come under fire from the heavy bombs of Strategic Air Force. This low level oblique view is from one of the RAF Liberator bomber aircraft which attacked a Japanese train fifteen miles south of Anim on the Pegu-Ye railway line. A dense black cloud of smoke is rising high into the sky, while flames are burning furiously. It is believed that this train was transporting oil to the Japanese armies.
Chumphon, Thailand. 22 May 1945. Since the fall of Rangoon heavy RAF Liberator aircraft of the Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command, have been concentrating on cutting all lines of communications
Chumphon, Thailand. 17 June 1945. Aircraft of No. 356 (Liberator) Squadron RAF of the Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command made a forty-mile sweep on the railway south of Chumphon on the Bangkok-S
Anim, Burma. 1945-05-22. A low level oblique photograph taken from an RAF Liberator aircraft of a Japanese train fifteen miles south of Anim on the Pegu-Ye railway line in Burma after being attacked b
Burma. 8 April 1945. Bombs bursting in the Pegu-Sittang canal, during an attack by aircraft of No. 356 (Liberator) Squadron RAF of the Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command.
Waw, Burma. 8 April 1945. Bombs bursting near a road bridge over the Pegu-Sittang canal, during an attack by aircraft of No. 356 (Liberator) Squadron RAF of the Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Comman
Burma. 8 April 1945. Bombs bursting in the Pegu-Sittang canal, in the vicinity of a road-bridge during an attack by aircraft of No. 356 (Liberator) Squadron RAF of the Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air
