The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 supply vessels were sunk at their moorings. Warehouses and supply dumps were reduced to rubble. The forepart of a motorboat has been lifted on to the dockside by the force of an Allied bomb. The warehouse behind it has been shattered. In the distance a church still raises its tower amid the surrounding houses, few of which have been hit.
Ferryville, Bizerte, Tunisia. 16 May 1943. Part of the waterfront showing the devastation caused by Allied bomber aircraft in heavy attacks on this important Tunisian harbour. An Axis auxiliary naval
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 afte
Tripoli, Tripolitania, Libya. 31 January 1943. A group of coloured soldiers of Allied forces captured at Tobruk who were released a few days ago when the Eighth Army took over Tripoli. They had been p
Singapore. C. 1945-08. An RAF Motor Transport driver stands in a tangle of twisted metal work on the dockside at Singapore where dock installaions and warehouse had been wrecked in Allied air attacks.
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
Benghazi, Cyrenaica, Libya. 13 December 1942. Damaged remains of warehouses on the waterfront in ruins. The port had been the target for heavy bomber aircraft of the Allied Air Forces for months. Thou
