The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Monument Wood, France. 11 July 1918. Australian and American soldiers in a trench examining a German tank trap, filled with powerful explosive, and a periscope of a type much used by the enemy at that time. The tank trap was so devised that any heavy weight upon it would shear two pins and detonate the fuses.
Two 250 lb bombs attached to the underside of a Kittyhawk aircraft from 450 Squadron RAAF. Note the piece of steel projecting about 30 cm from the nose of each bomb; this was designed to detonate the
A PIECE OF JAPANESE FLYING EQUIPMENT KNOWN AS THE "BELLY TANK". THIS TANK IS USED ON THE ZERO FIGHTERS. IT IS MADE OF PLY WOOD AND HOLDS ABOUT 70 GALLONS OF PETROL. THE MOUNTING ON TOP OF THE TANK IN
NEVER BEFORE HAS AUSTRALIAN FACED SUCH AN ORDEAL AS THAT WHICH LIES AHEAD, AND NEVER BEFORE HAS SHE BEEN SO FORMIDABLY EQUIPPED TO MEET ANY FORCE THAT MAY BE THROWN AGAINST HER. WITH THE LATEST TANK E
NEVER BEFORE HAS AUSTRALIA FACED SUCH AN ORDEAL AS THAT WHICH LIES AHEAD AND NEVER BEFORE HAS SHE BEEN SO FORMIDABLY EQUIPPED TO MEET ANY FORCE THAT MAY BE THROWN AGAINST HER. WITH THE LATEST TANK EQU
A sapper from 1 Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), emerges from the entrance to a Viet Cong bunker which is well supported and protected by a revetment of logs. One of the so-called tun
Remains of demolished houses in the village of Le Sars, in May 1917. In the majority of these villages and small towns the buildings were chiefly wood and plaster or thin walled brick, so that even th
