094311 Accession Number: 094311

Description

Cape Boram, Wewak area, New Guinea. Personnel examining an armoured recovery variant of the medium type 97 Chi Ha tank, which was captured on the beach. Army workshops, the tank regiments and the intelligence section of 6 Division are interested in this tank, for they have not previously seen this particular type and have no record of its manufacture. The pictures were taken at the request of G Armoured Corps, Corps of Australian Electrical And Mechanical Engineers, Land Headquarters.

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Accession Number
094311
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
23 July 1945
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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