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"Now Private, that's no way to hold a rifle!"
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Maker: Fluke, Roy George Herbert
Depicts a soldier hitting a Japanese soldier on the head with his rifle and being told off for this by a senior officer. Roy George Herbert Fluke (b. 1921) served with the Australian Army during the S...ARTI03210
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Officer, Japanese POW, New Britain
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Maker: Walker, Ralph
Portrait study of head of male, unidentified Japanese prisoner of war. He wears a hat with earflaps.ART29158
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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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Old Japanese Barge, Finschafen
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Depicts scene from the cove behind Finschafen, Australian Reception Camp. One of two barges beached in the cove.ART25386
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Old Japanese Barge Finschafen
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Depicts scene drawn from the cove behind Finschhafen Australian Reception Camp, showing one of the two barges beached in the cove.ART25387
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Pop! Boom!, drawing for cartoon in 'The Daily Telegraph', Sydney, 19 June 1943
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Maker: Mahony, Will
This cartoon was published in the 'Daily Telegraph' on 19 June 1943. It depicts a Japanese midget submarine firing a shell at part of a map-like outline marked 'Sydney'. Aimed at the submarine and han...ART90965
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Port Lookout, Lore (Sae)
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Maker: Bush, Charles
In the Lautem Province of Portuguese Timor, the district in which "H" Detachment of "Lancer Force", under Lieutenant C.D Doig of 2/2nd Australian Independent Company, passed through here on the way fr...ART26157
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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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Preliminary sketch for Kittyhawks strafing Jap tank on Gilli Gilli Road
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Maker: Dargie, William
Kittyhawks strafing Japanese tanks, Milne Bay, New Guinea. A preliminary sketch of an action on the Gilli Gilli road.ART23170
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RAAF Beaufighter strafing Lae Drome
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch of a bombed Japanese aircraft that is sending smoke billowing up into the air. Dargie noted "In a low level strafing run over Japanese occupied Lae, one of our Beaufighters strafs grounded ene...ART23168
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recto: Captured Japanese weapons; verso: Japanese position after surrender
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
recto: A landscape with destroyed trees and a pile of captured Japanese weapons taken after their surrender in Wewak, New Guinea is depicted. verso: A landscape depiction of the Japanese position foll...ART29931
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RSVP
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Maker: Aria, George Aubrey Aria, George Aubrey
A Japanese man is broadcasting over the radio amidst wreckage, while a bomb is flying towards him.ART92364
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Same Church at evening
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Catholic Church at Same with Mount Sanaleo in the background. A Japanese plane was brought down near here by Timorese rifle fire. The 2/2nd Australian Independent Company and "Lancer Force" were exten...ART26307
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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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Sawing wood
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Maker: Santa, Yasushi
Three indigenous men sawing wood in Rabaul, New Britain.ART92894
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Scene of one of the first Japanese landings, Milne Bay, with beached invasion barges
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Maker: Dargie, William
Scene of two partially destroyed Japanese landing barges listing in the water, with trees and a low mountain range in the background. Dargie noted, "These barges were strafed by Australian Kittyhawks...ART22075
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Searching Jap prisoners
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Field Security Unit officers searching the gear of Japanese prisoners-of-war who have been brought by barge from Bougainville Island to Fauro Island for internment, Fauro Island, Solomons.ART25243
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Sick Japanese
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
A sick Japanese man lies on a stretcher, evacuated by hospital barge to 17th Australian Field Ambulance, Soraken Peninsular, North Bougainville.ART25236
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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