The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
View of the battlefield in the Ypres Sector, showing some of the many pillboxes which fortified this area against the Australian attack of 20 September. Note the thickness of the roof of the one in the centre, and the triple arched type a little to the right of it, upon which direct hits from anything less than 9 inch high explosive shells did no material damage. There were probably far more pill boxes to the acre in this area than on any other part of the Western front, a condition which was in some measure responsible for the tremendous artillery fire of the Third Battle of Ypres.
Unidentified officers of the 23rd Battalion, some conversing, outside the Anzac pillbox (reinforced concrete defence post), which served as headquarters for the battalion in the period leading up to t
A line of concrete shelters (pillboxes) in the swamp of Nonne Bosschen, taken by the 1st Division, showing the condition of the depressions on the battlefield even after several weeks of dry weather.
Tripolitania, Africa. c. 1942. A close-range view of direct hits by RAF bomber aircraft on enemy barracks near Mellaha. The attack was carried out from roof-height. On the right may be seen the tail f
Australian manned M3 Stuart light tanks in action leading to the final assault on Buna, Papua, during which they crashed through a Japanese chain of heavily fortified pillboxes.
Pantelleria, Italy. 16 June 1943. Smoke is billowing over the island from bomb explosions during the terrific bombardment of enemy defences just before the Italians surrendered. 'One can't walk far in
A German stronghold, consisting of a number of concrete redoubts, at Nonne Bosschen, in the Ypres sector, captured by the 3rd and 7th Brigades, in the Australian attack on 20 September 1917, and photo
