The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Dutch New Guinea. Private Eric Swanson of Brisbane, Qld, emerging from semi-underground operational signal office with a signal. Usually all signals and offices are built underground, but owing to the swamplands it is impossible to dig deeper than two feet without striking water. This particular office is built of coconut logs and reinforced with earth and coconuts to reduce blast.
(A voice over sound track has been added to the Digital Betacam version). Activities of the 67 and 73 Mobile Anti- Aircraft Searchlight Batteries in New Guinea 1942-1943. Opening titles "Looking for t
Series number AWM55 Series title Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) publications Series contents range 02 Nov 1931 - 02 Aug 1950 Extent 15.44m Access conditions Subject to the Austr