The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
New Guinea. German and US nuns and brothers who were rescued by the Allies after the capture of Hollandia. During Japanese occupation the nuns were often beaten and made to work hard. One nun who asked for some flour was struck in the face by a Japanese officer. This is one of the many insults offered to them by the enemy.
New Guinea. German and US nuns who were rescued by the Allies after the capture of Hollandia. During Japanese occupation the nuns were often beaten and made to work hard. One nun who asked for some fl
New Guinea. German and US nuns and brothers who were rescued by the Allies after the capture of Hollandia. During Japanese occupation the nuns were often beaten and made to work hard. One nun who aske
Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea. German and American nuns who were rescued by the Allies after the capture of Hollandia. During the Japanese occupation the nuns were often beaten and made to work hard.
New Guinea. A large Japanese twin-engined Mitsubishi G4M3 bomber aircraft, allied code name 'Betty', one of the many destroyed aircraft found by the Allies at Hollandia, after the occupation of that b
Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea. Roy Barber of Walla Walla, NSW, was one of the two Australians rescued after the Allied occupation of Hollandia. Prior to the Japanese occupation of that base he had been
Dutch New Guinea. Two former Javanese prisoners of war (POWs) who were employed by the Japanese as labourers building roads at Biak Island are assisted to walk by a US soldier. Some were too weak from
