The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
SINGAPORE, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. 1943-09. OTTER BAY, PALAU PANJANG ISLAND, WHICH WAS USED AS A BASE BY MEMBERS OF "OPERATION JAYWICK", "Z" SPECIAL UNIT AUSTRALIAN SERVICES RECONNAISSANCE DEPARTMENT, DURING THEIR SUCCESSFUL RAID ON SHIPPNG IN JAPANESE OCCUPIED SINGAPORE. OPERATIONAL GEAR, FOOD AND WATER FOR ONE MONTH, WAS LANDED WITHOUT MISHAP, FROM THE MV. "KRAIT" WHICH BROUGHT THE PARTY FROM AUSTRALIA.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. 1943-09. A MEMBER OF "Z" SPECIAL UNIT, AUSTRALIAN SERVICES RECONNAISSANCE DEPARTMENT, ALONGSIDE A TWO MAN CANOE HIDDEN IN THICK JUNGLE, PRIOR TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A SUCCESSFUL
Refuge Bay. Informal portrait of Sub Lieutenant Bertram Thomas Overell, member of 'Z' Special Unit, Australian Services Reconnaissance Department, outside a tent at a training camp. He was preparing f
Refuge Bay, Hawkesbury River, NSW. c.1943-01-17. Informal portrait of Major Herbert Alan `Jock' Campbell, a member of `Z' Special Unit, Australian Services Reconnaissance Department, outside a tent at
The MV Krait (originally known as the Kofuku Maru) was a Chinese built trawler which was commandeered during 1942, and operated by the Services Reconnaissance Department and Royal Australian Navy. The
The MV Krait (originally known as the Kofuku Maru) was a Chinese built trawler which was commandeered during 1942, and operated by the Services Reconnaissance Department and Royal Australian Navy. The
SINGAPORE, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, 1943-09. MEMBERS OF "OPERATION JAYWICK", "Z" SPECIAL UNIT, AUSTRALIAN SERVICES RECONNAISSANCE DEPARTMENT, ON BOARD THE MV. "KRAIT" EN ROUTE FOR JAPANESE OCCUPIED SINGAP
