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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [year of the tiger]
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Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt horizontally embroidered in red with a Tasmanian tiger. On each side of the tiger is a square pattern made of 90 small knots. A coin has been sewn onto the seam of each tie. A Thousan...AWM2018.765.1.9
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Attack on 'Pearl Ridge'
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Drawn from Artillery Ridge during the action. Pearl Ridge is on the skyline and from there it is possible to see the other side of Bougainville island. Air bombing and strafing were followed by artill...ART21452
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Australian doctors inspecting Japanese sick reports
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts Australian Medical Officers inspecting Japanese medical records, Dutch Timor.ART26148
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Australian soldiers examining wrecked cars and trucks in dock area
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Maker: Buckmaster, Ernest
Ernest Buckmaster was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne on July 3 1897. After being rejected for military service due to his physical frailty Buckmaster attended the National Gallery Art School from 1918-24...ART23380
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Bangkok Canal
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Many of the Australian and Allied prisoners-of-war who were sent by the Japanese to work on the Thailand-Burma Railway, passed through Bangkok. After the Japanese surrender, those still in the area sp...ART24419
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Beached Jap invasion barges, Waga Waga, site of original Jap landing
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Maker: Dargie, William
Beached Japanese invasion barges at Waga Waga, Milne Bay. There are trees and a low mountain range in the background.ART21313
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Beaufighters strafing Lae strip
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Maker: Dargie, William
Pencil sketch of Japanese bombers burning on the ground.ART21322
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Bell P39 Airacobra and Catalina aircraft
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Two aircraft damaged by Japanese attacks at Port Moresby are shown. In the foreground is a US Bell P39 Airacobra which crashed into the sea after an encounter with a Japanese Zero fighter. The Consoli...ART28025
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Blasted Japanese anti aircraft gun, Madang
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work depicts a destroyed Japanese anti aircraft gun in Madang, Papua New Guinea, accompanied by hand written details of the gun's camouflage.ART22712
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Bombs on Lae strip
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch of RAAF beaufighters bombing the Japanese drome at Lae, New Guinea.ART23174
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Boram night work
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Maker: Thompson, Robert
Painting of a crashed Japanese aircraft. The red hinamoru circle of the Japanese flag is prominent against the dark night sky. The artist, Robert Thompson wrote: "Night Shift, bulldozer pushing wrec...ART28721
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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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Burying dead Japanese, Arty Hill
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers burying dead Japanese soldiers at Artillery Hill, Bougainville, New Guinea.ART25757
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Camouflaged Jap lighter, Tenau submarine base
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Camouflaged Japanese lighter at the Submarine Base, Tenau, Timor.ART26144
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Captured Japanese 150mm Howitzer
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Drawn on the day after capture when the site was comparatively undisturbed. This gun had been responsible for a certain amount of shelling during weeks previous to its capture. The gun had obviously b...ART21455
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[cartoon drawing of Cpl. Komoto]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts a cartoon drawing of of the Japanese Corporal Komoto's face, with notes about his capture in Borneo. On the verso are 3 cartoon drawings of Corporal Komoto's face. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-...ART96633
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Cathedral at Dilli, through columns of the town hall
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Maker: Bush, Charles
The Cathedral was, prior to the Japanese occupation, a dazzling white edifice with twin towers and reputed to have cost a million pataacas, or about 160,000 pound sterling. Dilli was occupied by Dutch...ART26168
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"Chariots of the Sons of Heaven"
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Maker: Bush, Charles
A pile of discarded Japanese bicycles heaped in a room of the wrecked house of Portuguese General at Same in Portuguese Timor.ART26159
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Chinese dwellings, Koepang
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Maker: Bush, Charles
View of the Chinese quarter on the waterfront after the Japanese had occupied Koepang for a three years. This work was executed on the same day Bush arrived in Koepang, Timor via Catalina flying boat,...ART26136
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Coming to the boil over
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Maker: Aria, George Aubrey Aria, George Aubrey
Japanese man stirs a boiling couldron labelled 'Southward Concoction' containing enemy ships, planes and tanks. The couldron is lit by the 'flames of early successes'.ART92343