The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Tripoli, Tripolitania, Libya. 21 December 1941. This remarkable photograph captured from a German prisoner of war (POW) shows the devastation caused on Tripoli's Spanish Mole (wharf), the morning after a raid by the RAF. 'Bombs burst on the Spanish Mole causing explosions and fires' is a phrase often to be found in the RAF communiques. Corroboration which makes it quite clear that no exaggerated claims are made has thus been obligingly supplied by the enemy. Four Italian soldiers stand amongst the rubble.
Tripoli, Tripolitania, Libya. 21 December 1941. This remarkable photograph captured from a German prisoner of war (POW) shows the devastation caused on Tripoli's Spanish Mole the morning after a raid
Tripoli, Tripolitania, Libya. 21 December 1941. This remarkable photograph captured from a German prisoner of war (POW) shows a great column of smoke from a burning fuel store still rising in the sky
Tripoli, Tripolitania, Libya. 26 January 1943. Few Allied bombs fell in the residential quarter of Tripoli during the pounding of the port by heavy bomber aircraft of the USMEAF and the RAF. The harbo
Tripolitania, Libya. 6 February 1943. Twisted girders and iron sheeting are all that is left of one of the great hangars on the airfield at Castel Benito, near Tripoli. Bombs from Allied aircraft caus
Tripoli, Tripolitania, Libya. 8 February 1943. Scene of devastation on Tripoli's waterfront. Heavy raids were made on the port by Allied bomber aircraft over a long period, during which many Axis supp
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX54460 Sapper Walter William Forrester, 2/4 Australian Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers, Balikpapan, Borneo, 1945. Collection consist