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  1. Bombs on Lae

    Art

    Maker: Dargie, William

    Depicts a bomber flying over peninsula with explosions on the ground, Lae, New Guinea. Hotes for a later painting.

    ART21324

  2. Bombs on Lae

    Art

    Maker: Dargie, William

    Sketch of a bomber flying over the Huon Peninsula with explosions smoking on the ground.

    ART21323

  3. Bombs on Lae strip

    Art

    Maker: Dargie, William

    Sketch of RAAF beaufighters bombing the Japanese drome at Lae, New Guinea.

    ART23174

  4.

    Bruce Webb, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) bomber pilot, interviewed by Ken Llewelyn about his service during the Second World War

    Sound

    Maker: Webb, Bruce William Llewelyn, Kenneth

    (418216) Webb, Bruce William (Flying Officer)

    S01668

  5. B24s on concrete strip

    Art

    Maker: Dargie, William

    These planes of No. 159 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, with which many Australians are serving, are awaiting instructions to taxi up to the take-off strip. They are already bombed up, and the c...

    ART23908

  6.

    Checking up on an engine

    Art

    Maker: Dargie, William

    Showing a engineer working on one of the four Pratt and Whitney R 1830-65 engines of a Liberator which the previous night had bombed Radar installations on Great Cocoa Island from Digri, India.

    ART23154

  7.

    Contact Port Outer

    Art

    Maker: Adams, Dennis

    Depicts a Halifax Bomber taxiing on the runway.

    ART25691

  8.

    Cook, Owen Joseph (Flying Officer, b.1921)

    Manuscript

    Maker: Cook, Owen Joseph

    Collection relating to the Second World War service of 428456 Flying Officer Owen Joseph Cook, 75 (New Zealand) Bomber Squadron, RAF. Collection includes one manuscript entitled "Tiger Moths to four-e...

    MSS2235

  9.

    Corporal Pat Horan

    Art

    Maker: Bush, Charles

    Depicts a portrait of WX16805 Corporal Pat Horan, former commando, air guide for 'biscuit bomber' supply dropping aircraft, 2/5 Independent Company.

    ART25846

  10.

    Correspondence and photographs relating to Edward Randolph Cleaver, 1914-1918

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Cleaver, Edward Randolph French, James Lawson, James (Jas)

    Correspondence and photographs relating to the First World War service of 91 Trooper Edward Randolph Cleaver, 4th Light Horse Regiment. This collection of material includes letters and postcards from ...

    RCDIG0000894

  11. Counting returning aeroplanes, Jackson Strip, New Guinea

    Art

    Maker: Quinn, Arthur

    An airman watches aircraft returning from a bombing mission, Jackson Strip, New Guinea.

    ART92625

  12. Crashed Japanese bomber, NW Australia

    Art

    Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)

    Depicts a crashed Japanese bomber, a number of men and a Jeep in north-western Australia. William Edwin Pidgeon ('WEP') (1909-1981) was a painter, cartoonist, illustrator and newspaper critic. In 1926...

    ART95011

  13.

    Crew bail out!

    Art

    Maker: Adams, Dennis

    A chaotic scene inside a burning bomber captures crew members as they attempt escape. In this work Adams draws on his own experience of a crash landing: "The aircraft rolled completely over as it cras...

    ART25693

  14. Daly River from the air

    Art

    Maker: Murch, Arthur

    From the centre to the bottom centre of this painting we see an aerial view of a river that forks at the bottom, and three planes in flight in the centre. Clouds cover the rest of the composition. It ...

    ART30129

  15. Das ist das Heil, das sie bringen! (That is the salvation, that they bring)

    Art

    Maker: Heartfield, John Heartfield Archive and GDR Government

    A skeleton hand with bomber planes issuing from its five fingers, raised imposingly over the destroyed city with bodies of dead children in the foreground. This work was horribly prophetic when first ...

    ARTV09077

  16.

    Data plate from a Mitsubishi G4M1 Betty bomber shot down on 23 November 1942 over Darwin : Corporal J Errol, RAAF

    Technology

    Maker: Mitsubishi

    This small aluminium data plate displays two lines of entry printed in black with an adjoining space for stamped or impresed details. The top line translates as 'Part number' with the stamped number '...

    REL30194

  17. Death for a neighbour on Banya St, Bulimba

    Art

    Maker: Curtis, R Emerson

    A pile of goulish-eyed monsters that had once seen action as Flying Fortresses, Liberators and 'Biscuit Bombers' lay rusting in a crumpled heap beside a little suburban house. The junk is part of an A...

    ART25592

  18. Destroyed Japanese aircraft

    Art

    Maker: Watson, Douglas

    This work depicts Japanese aircraft that were destroyed during the initial bombardment of Kamiri airstrip. Both bomber and fighter planes were destroyed on this airstrip in Noemfoor, Dutch New Guinea.

    ART22437

  19.

    Diary of Cecil Anthony McAnulty, [1915]

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: McAnulty, Cecil Anthony

    Diary relating to the First World War service of 1803 Private Cecil Anthony McAnulty, 3rd Infantry Battalion. In this diary, kept between 1 June [1915] and 8 August [1915], McAnulty provides a detaile...

    RCDIG0000915

  20.

    Diary of David Taylor Galt

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Galt, David Taylor

    Diary relating to the Second World War service of 400976 Pilot Officer David Taylor Galt DFC, 460 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. In his diary, Galt recounts his experiences as the pilot of an...

    AWM2019.22.227

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