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'Britcom Base' labour pool, Kure
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
A large amount of Japanese labour is employed by the occupation forces and casuals and new people signed in are sorted out early in the morning at the pool.ART26378
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Hill people
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Maker: Waite, Allan George
A view of Japanese people working up in the hills surrounding the city of Kure.ART94074
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Hiroshima
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Japanese are rummaging among wreckage following the bombing of Hiroshima. There is a twisted steel structure still standing, but the rest of the landscape has been flattened and is strewn with wrecka...ART26717
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Hiroshima
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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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Okinawa Japanese being inoculated preparatory to repatriation to their homeland
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Repatriation Centre at Ujima near Hiroshima controlled by 65th Australian Infantry Battalion. Men, women and children stand in a queue to receive an inoculation.ART26380
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POW returning to Japan
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Otaki repatriation centre controlled by No.2 New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) Cavalry Division. Japanese are greeted by the sight of the great industrial wreckage in the background.ART26381
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Provost unit searching a Japanese junk in Kure Harbour
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Maker: Colville, George
Depicts a Provost unit searching a Japanese Junk in Kure harbour, Japan.ART26943
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Reconstruction
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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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Samurai with sword
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Samurai with sword, drawn for the Australian War Memorial Christmas Book. The drawing suggests original old Japanese prints featuring Samurai with swords.ART26217
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Sigs cable laying station
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
A number of submarine cables were laid between Eta Jima and various points along the coast of the mainland to provide increased telephone channels between British Commonwealth Occupied Forces (BCOF) a...ART26375
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Still bombed out, October '46
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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
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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
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[Well dressed and netting insects]
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Maker: Tabei, K
Depicts a number of well dressed men in top hats and women in formal dresses near the edge of a lake (or river) with nets. The clothing of the men and women is not appropriate for the activity they ar...ART96040