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Abandoned torpedo factory
Art
Maker: Waite, Allan George
Scene inside an torpedo factory, showing abandoned and partially destroyed munitions. This image was painted in the 1950s from a photograph taken in 1946 while Waite was stationed in Japan with the B...ART94065
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Album related to the service of 3395 Captain Jeffrey James Shelton MC, British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF)
Photograph
Album of 42 pages including covers containing 153 items, primarily photographs, and 8 loose items, related to the service of 3395 Captain Jeffrey James Shelton MC, British Commonwealth Occupation Forc...AWM2020.729.1
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Atom bomb damage, Hiroshima
Film
Maker: Military History Section, BCOF
General view of the damage caused by the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The bomb exploded at 8.15 am on the 6 August 1945. Approximately 60 per cent of Hiroshima was destroyed.F07489
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Bomb-damaged naval dock, Kure
Art
Maker: Colville, George
Depicts a painting of the bomb damage at the Naval Dockyards, Kure.ART26947
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Diary of Keith Lindsay Lewtas, 'Personal diary (improvised)', 1946
Digitised Collection
Maker: Lewtas, Keith Lindsay
Diary related to the British Commonwealth Occupation Force service of VX5354 Sergeant Keith Lindsay Lewtas, 67th Infantry Battalion. This diary written between 1 January 1946 and 5 March 1946 mentions...AWM2019.22.67
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Dr Evatt's tour of BCOF installation
Film
Maker: Cuthbert, Allan George
Dr and Mrs Evatt, as guests of the Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) 34 (VX20321, VX80578) Lieutenant-General Horace Clement Hugh Robertson CBE DSO, made a tour of the BCOF installations today on their arri...F07496
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Group portrait of visiting members of the United Nations Mission. The mission inspected Japanese ...
Photograph
Maker: Freeman, William Harry
Group portrait of visiting members of the United Nations Mission. The mission inspected Japanese installations and bomb damage in the Kure and Hiroshima areas. Left to right: Back row: Captain J. D. S...100992
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Hiroshima
Art
Maker: Waite, Allan George
A distance view from the hills surrounding Hiroshima, looking down to the epicentre of the atomic bomb and the surrouding destruction of the city. This image was painted in the 1950s from a photograp...ART94066
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Hiroshima
Art
Maker: Waite, Allan George
A scene of wild, snowy weather showing two figures walking on a road that leads up a hil past a stone lantern and through a tori gate. All around the road is debris from bomb damage to the city of Hi...ART94082
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Hiroshima (I)
Art
Maker: Waite, Allan George
A figure in the foreground clears rubble, while in the background are destroyed buildings and debris caused by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.ART94075
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Kure, Japan
Art
Maker: Waite, Allan George
Sunset through clouds over the coastline and city of Kure. The flattened urban centre can be seen, framed by the surrounding mountains.ART94078
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KURE, JAPAN. 1946-02-22. ON THEIR WAY FROM THE WHARVES, TO ENTRAIN FOR IWAKUNI, 500 VOLUNTEERS ...
Photograph
Maker: Harrison, John Thomas
KURE, JAPAN. 1946-02-22. ON THEIR WAY FROM THE WHARVES, TO ENTRAIN FOR IWAKUNI, 500 VOLUNTEERS FROM THE RAAF COMPONENT OF THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OCCUPATION FORCE (BCOF) MARCHED THROUGHT THE BOMB BAT...OG3806
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Melted and fused glass jars, atomic blast Hiroshima
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
A cluster of three crown sealed glass jars fused together with other pieces of glass and miscellaneous debris.RELAWM34352
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Melted beer bottle, atomic blast Hiroshima
Heraldry
Maker: Dai Nippon Brewery
Melted brown coloured beer bottle. This bottle is badly distorted, the neck is fused to the rest of the bottle. There is a gritty residue remaining inside the bottle. The bottle has the following mark...RELAWM34346
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Osaka Arsenal after the B29s
Film
Maker: O'Brien, John William Alexander
A home movie taken by Brigadier (Brig) John O'Brien. Brig O'Brien served as the Leader of the Australian Scientific Mission to Japan 1945-1946 and Chief of the Scientific and Technical Division Suprem...F04956
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Plan occupation
Film
Maker: O'Brien, John William Alexander
A home movie taken by VX15127 Brigadier (Brig) John O'Brien. Brig O'Brien served as the Leader of the Australian Scientific Mission to Japan 1945-1946 and Chief of the Scientific and Technical Divisio...F04949
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Reconstruction
Art
Maker: Waite, Allan George
Two men are seen rebuilding a bridge over a city canal in Kure. Trees and intact building line the hillside along the canal.ART94080
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Searchlight on Japan
Film
Maker: Cinesound
Forward: Japan under Allied Occupation remains an important factor in world politics but the man in the street knows little of Japan today. This presentation essentially an Australian point of view m...F03522
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Still bombed out, October '46
Art
Maker: Rowed, Reg
Only a few minutes by jeep from the elaborate and unharmed Diet building, families live in humpies like this one, reminiscent of the Dudley Flats in Melbourne. This winter will be a hard one for them.ART26373
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The survivors
Art
Maker: Waite, Allan George
This is a scene of the destruction of the city of Hiroshima caused by the dropping of the atomic bomb. Two figures are in the foreground of the work clearning rubble and debris.ART94076