The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
1944. AMPHIBIOUS CATALINAS STATIONED AT GOODENOUGH ISLAND WERE CALLED OUT ABOUT 2 AM TO INVESTIGATE FLOATING DEBRIS THOUGHT TO BE A RAFT NEAR NEW BRITAIN. TURNED OUT TO BE A FALSE ALARM. WE FLEW OVER THE LAND ALL THE AMERICANS WERE WAVING, SO WE WAVED BACK. THEN WHEN THEY STARTED SMOKE BOMBS OF ALL DIFFERENT COLOURS WE LANDED. ABOUT 15 MINUTES BEFORE WE ARRIVED THE AMERICAN GI ON THE STRETCHER HAD BLOWN HIS HAND OFF AND A BIG HOLE IN HIS STOMACH WITH GELIGNITE WHILE "BLOWING-UP" FISH (THIS STUNS THE FISH AND YOU CAN CATCH THEM BY HAND). I OFTEN WONDERED WHETHER HE LIVED. IF HE LIVED HE CAN THANK THE PILOT WHO GAVE US THE FALSE ALARM FOR HIS LIFE AS THERE WAS NO AIRSTRIP AT THE TIME ANYWHERE NEAR AND THE CATALINE WAS ON THE SPOT, THOUGH NORMALLY STATIONED ABOUT 5 HOURS FLYING TIME AWAY.
Yokohama, Japan. 1945. American servicemen hand out GI issue clothing to troops who have recently been released from prisoner of war (POW) camps. Plenty of warm clothes are available here to replace t
One original two foolscap page letter dated 9 September 1945 and handwritten from Thailand by TX4839 Private (Pte) Stanley, Louis Albert (known as 'Jim'), 2/40 Infantry Battalion AIF, to his sister Mr
Japan. 1945. Food is very short in Japan and scenes such as this are very common. Every youngster spends all his time fishing for food. Here a group of them fish in a city canal while in the backgroun
Interior view of the Airmen's Barracks, No 2 Air Observers' School (2 AOS) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The caption on the reverse, written by 400393 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Eliot Ralph Barnfather RAA
Mike Parr is a leading Australian conceptual artist whose practice considers the mediation of trauma through the human body. Parr has made numerous works that attempt to understand the consequences of
Mike Parr is a leading Australian conceptual artist whose practice considers the mediation of trauma through the human body. Parr has made numerous works that attempt to understand the consequences of
