The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Funeral of Jene Hecht [TSgt Gene R Hecht, top turret gunner aboard Boeing B-17 bomber "The Belovich", 379th Bomb Group, USAF]. The coffin is being carried towards the cemetery. A German guard is in the foreground. Hecht died when his aircraft was shot down on 17 August 1943 during the bombing of Schweinfurt ball bearing company. The rest of the crew survived and were taken prisoner of war (POW).
Funeral of Jene Hecht [TSgt Gene R Hecht, top turret gunner aboard Boeing B-17 bomber "The Belovich", 379th Bomb Group , USAF]. The coffin, preceded by a soldier carrying a cross, is carried towards t
Funeral of Jene Hecht [TSgt Gene R Hecht, top turret gunner aboard Boeing B-17 bomber "The Belovich", 379th Bomb Group, USAF]. The cortege moves off from the camp to the cemetery. Hecht died when his
Funeral of Jene Hecht [TSgt Gene R Hecht, top turret gunner aboard Boeing B-17 bomber "The Belovich", 379th Bomb Group, USAF]. Australian prisoners of war (POWs), Regimental Sergeant Major Browne, 2/1
HAMMELBURG, GERMANY, AUGUST, 1943. FUNERAL OF JENE HECHT SHOT DOWN 17/8/1943, (PROBABLY A TECHNICAL SERGEANT, UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCE). THE COFFIN ARRIVES AT THE CEMETERY FOR THE SERVICE.
Funeral of an Australian soldier at the British Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery, Yokohama, Japan. The coffin, draped in the Australian flag, is being carried from the gun carriage into the cemetery.
A military funeral in progress at the Yokohama Cemetery. The coffin is being carried by RN or RAN seaman and led by an army padre. A guard of honour of Australian Soldiers lines each side of the proc
