The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
German strong points captured in the Australian attack on 20 September 1917, by the 3rd and 7th Infantry Brigades, in the Ypres sector, and photogaphed after the troops had passed. Seen here is a type of enemy strong point built of concrete slabs roofed with reinforced concrete and covered with logs of 6 inch and greater diameter, the whole structure being banked over with earth.
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
BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO. 1946. A BADLY BOMB DAMAGED JAPANESE 120MM NAVAL TYPE, COAST DEFENCE GUN EMPLACEMENT. THIS TYPE OF EMPLACEMENT WAS BUILT OF HEAVY TIMBER, WITH A 12" TIMBER ROOF, COVERED WITH 3' OF
An unidentified Australian soldier looking through the loophole of a captured machine gun emplacement at Kit and Kat, in the Ypres sector. Although solidly built of concrete slabs, supported by heavy
Soldiers near a line of German concrete strong points captured near Hannebeek, in the Ypres sector in Belgium, a few days after their capture. Note the large water filled crater in the foreground.
BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO. 1946. A JAPANESE 120MM NAVAL TYPE, COAST DEFENCE GUN AND EMPLACEMENT AT REF. 57465970 - NORTH OF THE DUTCH BARRACKS AT KLANDASAN. THESE GUNS COVERED THE BEACH TO THE SOUTH AND THE
BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO. 1946. THE COMMAND POST FOR THE TWO JAPANESE 120MM NAVAL TYPE, COAST DEFENCE GUNS, NORTH OF DUTCH BARRACKS AT KLANDASAN. THIS COMMAND POST IS OF HEAVY TIMBER CONSTRUCTION WITH A 12"
