The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
New Guinea. Sergeant Wright Thompson of Gunnedah, NSW, shows a spool of 35mm motion picture film to 'Kai' a Kaya-Kaya native, Rumahjara a Netherlands East Indies soldier and 'Wolmat' a Kaya-Kaya native. These people had never seen a picture till the Aussies came here and 'went bush' the first time a screening was presented.
Dark brown circular, lidded steel canister containing a 35mm film spool. The lid hinges for access on a heavy duty hinge and is secured by a single spring clasp accompanied by a rivetted chrome handle
The burnt out remains of what was probably a Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force DC-3 destroyed on the ground in the Japanese air-raid on the town on 3 March 1942. The DC-3, PK-ALO, was one of six
Once a high school classroom in the Phnom Penh suburb of Tuol Sleng, this room was one of many used by the Khmer Rouge to torture mostly innocent Cambodians and their families accused of treason, inte
An informal photograph of the Australian Prime Minister the Right Honourable William Morris (Billy) Hughes and Lieutenant General Sir William Birdwood. Hughes arrived in England on an official visit
A display of photographs in the Tuol Sleng Prison, a former high school used by the Khmer Rouge for torturing and killing between 14,000 and 17,000 intellectuals, officials, monks, nuns, men, women an
Discusses Americans; Vietnamese currency; C-130 transport aircraft; New Zealand Special Air Service (SAS); camp conditions; tour of duty; weather; training; equipment; concert parties; No. 1 Australia