The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Labuan Island, British North Borneo. 13 June 1945. Heavy equipment soon gets to work on the completely unuseable Timbalai airstrip, shortly after it had been captured by Australian troops. The Japanese had attempted to make the strip useless for landing purposes by erecting barricades and driving stakes into the ground. Heavy rains filled bomb craters to add to the devastation. Giant rollers and bulldozers soon got things 'drome-shape, however.
SOUTH BOUGAINVILLE. 1945-07-24. MATILDA TANKS OF 4 TROOP, A SQUADRON, 2/4 ARMOURED REGIMENT, CROSSING A CULVERT ON BUIN ROAD EAST OF THE MOBIAI RIVER. THEY ARE MOVING FORWARD TO RELIEVE 2 TROOP WITH 1
Melbourne, Vic. 1940. Portrait of Petty Officer (PO) John William Evans, RAN. PO Evans served on destroyer escort HMAS Nestor from November 1940 to June 1942 in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indian
OKINAWA, 1945. THIS AMERICAN RECONNAISSANCE PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS THE TERRAIN OVER WHICH FORCES OF THE US TENTH ARMY HAD TO FIGHT INCH BY INCH AS THEY OUTFLANKED THE JAPANESE FORTRESS CITY OF SHURI IN SOUT
Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber instrument panel, painted flat black, consisting of main panel, blind flying panel attached to left face, and lower angled secondary panel attached at base. Complete
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
Tripolitania, Libya. 28 December 1942. Working parties busy with their spades on the desolate stretch of desert chosen for the airfield. Ground crews of the RAF and RAAF squadrons worked like navvies
