The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This American wartime poster bears the words of American military leader General Douglas Macarthur from 1942. General Macarthur played a prominent role in the Pacific theatre during the Second World War, particularly in the Phillipines, and Papua and New Guinea. He said: "News and information on current events are the very breath of modern existence. To the combat soldier they are as necessary as bread and bullets".
This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.
Standard 100 foot daylight loading film spool for 35 mm movie camera. The maker's details impressed into each side of the spool face. One face has been marked crudely in thick white paint "W. CARTY".
A signed cricket bat commemorating cricket matches played by Australian (RAAF), Dominion Services and England cricket teams at Lord's on 29 May 1944, and 7 and 8 August 1944. This is a wide-grained c
Series number AWM55 Series title Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) publications Series contents range 02 Nov 1931 - 02 Aug 1950 Extent 15.44m Access conditions Subject to the Austr
Scene 33 take 1 Roll 4. The evening press conferences in Saigon at 5.00 pm were called the "Follies" mainly because we didn't believe what was being told us; macabre sense of humour; essential for ord
Series number AWM45 Series title Copies of British war diaries and other records, 1914-18 War ("Heyes papers") Series contents range 01 Jan 1914 - 31 Dec 1927 Extent 7m Access conditions Subject
Collection relating to the war service of VX109 Colonel Horace Sydney Plummer, CMF, 2/1 Australian Machine Gun Battalion, and HQ S Command, Australia, United Kingdom Greece, New Guinea, 1929-1965. Co
