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  1. AM18 'Airwave' (1943-1944)

    Private Record

    Maker: Various

    Collection relating to Australian Army vessel AM18 'Airwave', Australia and New Guinea, February 1943 - March 1944. Collection consists of one log book written initially by Warrant Officer 1st Class ...

    AWM2016.178.1

  2. A.M.C. on fire

    Art

    Maker: Norton, Frank

    Armed Merchant Cruiser (ex Blue Funnel Liner) on fire and sitting on Colombo Harbour bottom as the result of a Japanese air-raid a day or so previously. Smoke fills the right side of the image. Drawn ...

    ART23453

  3. Another victim of sabotalk

    Art

    Maker: Warner, Ralph Malcolm

    Depicts a turbulant sea, into which a burning merchant ship sinks. Smoke billows from the bow of the vessel while the crew are escaping in a lifeboat. The caption and image warn of the consequences of...

    ARTV10121

  4.

    An unidentified Australian soldier, a member of the Australian led International Force for East ...

    Photograph

    Maker: Parker, David Dare

    An unidentified Australian soldier, a member of the Australian led International Force for East Timor (INTERFET), takes cover as buildings burn in the streets of Dili. Following the announcement of th...

    P11326.004

  5. Baghdad defence ministry

    Art

    Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan

    This print illustrates the bombing of the Baghdad Defence Ministry. In the background, the Ministry is ablaze, whilst smoke billows into the foreground. The artist has contrasted the bright orange of ...

    ART90709

  6.

    Battle for Tunisia

    Film

    Title : Battle for Tunisia. This captured German film shows Italian fleet, Japanese submarine crew, and Rommel. Also seen is the landing of British forces and equipment, British convoy, and ships ab...

    F00815

  7. Beaufighters strafing Lae strip

    Art

    Maker: Dargie, William

    Pencil sketch of Japanese bombers burning on the ground.

    ART21322

  8. Big fire on the beach, Seria

    Art

    Maker: Flett, James

    Oil tanks on fire along beach, fired by the Japanese shortly after the Australian landing at Brooketon, North Borneo.

    ART26014

  9. Bombarded landscape, Tarakan

    Art

    Maker: Browning, George Julian

    Sketch for painting showing troops ascending Tank knoll among broken tanks. A torn and twisted oil tank forms a frame through which the artist looks.

    ART25440

  10. Bombardment of Lingkas harbour, Tarakan

    Art

    Maker: Watson, Douglas

    Preliminary sketch of large rising plumes of dark smoke.

    ART29791

  11. Bomber Crash, Rabaul

    Art

    Maker: Hinder, Frank

    This is a semi-abstract composition combining exterior and interior views of a crashed aircraft in flames. This is a representation of a crash of a Lockheed Hudson on take-off for aerial reconnaissanc...

    ART28377.001

  12. Bomber Crash, Rabaul

    Art

    Maker: Hinder, Frank

    This is a representation of crash of a Lockheed Hudson on take-off for aerial reconnaissance.

    ART28377.002

  13. Burning oil wells at Seria

    Art

    Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)

    Depicts burning oil wells at Seria, during the Second World War, when it was part of Borneo (it is today in Brunei Darussalam). Oil was first discovered in the area in 1929. The first landing of the J...

    ART96245

  14. Burning oil wells, Seria

    Art

    Maker: Flett, James

    Looking south along the coast of the China Sea to Baram Cape. Showing line of wells along the beach, 38 in all, ablaze.

    ART25878

  15. Burning petrol dump near 7 mile drome

    Art

    Maker: Dargie, William

    Three Australian soldiers are pictured in the foreground with a burning petrol dump billowing black smoke near Jackson's Drome, Port Moresby, New Guinea.

    ART21312

  16. Burnt house, Dili; verso left: Two East Timorese women working; verso right: Portrait of Brian Manns

    Art

    Maker: Amor, Rick

    recto: Burnt-out buildings, Dili, East Timor; verso left: Two East Timorese women working; verso right: Portrait of Brian Manns seated in a chair.

    ART91102

  17. Burnt out Japanese aircraft on Kamiri airstrip, Noemfoor Island

    Art

    Maker: Watson, Douglas

    Depicts the remains of a wrecked and burnt Japanese aircraft on the Kamiri airstip on Noemfoor Island during the Second World War.

    ART23731

  18.

    Cambodian Forces counter attack around Saang [Khum Srang] on the vital Viet Cong route to Vietnam (Visnews production number 1223-71)

    Film

    Maker: Davis, Neil Brian

    The Cambodian town of Saang [Khum Srang] epitomises the current war in that country. The small collection of villages lies astride Route 21, used by the Viet Cong as a route to and from Vietnam. Saang...

    F10508

  19. Captain Stan Carnes in burnt courthouse, Dili, East Timor

    Art

    Maker: Sharpe, Wendy Elizabeth

    Captain Stan Carnes seated at a desk in burnt courthouse, Dili, East Timor. Page from large sketchbook no. 2.

    ART91187.073

  20.

    Collection realting to 433678 Leading Aircraftman John Keith Barry, 12 Aircraft Repair Depot

    Photograph

    Images taken in Darwin, showing bombing damage, Japanese mines, fires, following attack.

    AWM2018.569.1

  21. Coming to the boil over

    Art

    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

  22. Cookhouse

    Art

    Maker: Hele, Ivor

    An Australian soldier standing near a campfire outside a make shift cookhouse in an army camp in New Guinea.

    ART90281

  23.

    Dawson, Herbert Henry “Smoky” (Private, b.1913 - d.2008)

    Private Record

    Maker: Dawson, Herbert Henry "Smoky"

    Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX126714 Private Herbert Henry “Smoky” Dawson, Australian Amenities Service, Entertainment Unit, Borneo and Darwin, 1944-1945. Collection consis...

    PR05495

  24. Deutschlands ideale zukunft unter der Herrschaft des Bolschewisten [Germany's ideal future under the dominion of the Bolshevist]

    Art

    Maker: Kassin, M Vereinigung zur Bekampfung des Bolscheivismus [Alliance to Combat Bolshevism] Heymann und Schmidt

    A post-First World War German anti-Bolshevist poster issued by Vereinigung zur Bekampfung des Bolscheivismus [Alliance to Combat Bolshevism] c.1919. The poster features the image of a giant male figur...

    ARTV00129

  25.

    Fall of Manila

    Film

    Maker: Fox Movietone News

    Movietone newsreel item comprising combat footage shot by United States Signal Corps photographers. Shows the intense street fighting in the battle for Manila. The city in flames from fires started by...

    F10200

  26. "Fire!" Torpedo factory at Dainyu, near Kure

    Art

    Maker: Waite, Allan George

    Scene of a munitions factory engulfed in flames near the water's edge. A group of figures are pumping water from the bay to put the fire out.

    ART94081

  27.

    Fryer, Erin (Squadron Leader)

    Private Record

    Maker: Various

    Collection relating to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) service of L327908/8198490 Squadron Leader Erin Fryer, Royal Australian Air Force, 2019-2020. Wallet 1 of 1 - Consists of eig...

    AWM2020.711.7

  28. Furnace crane

    Art

    Maker: Ragless, Max

    A crane lifts forging for the undercarriage of aircraft from the furnace at the National Motor Springs Pty. Ltd., at Alexandria, Sydney.

    ART25491

  29. "Get into khaki" We are doing our bit...

    Art

    Maker: Burton, H M Unknown Gullick, W A

    Australian First World War recruitment poster produced by the Government of New South Wales. Encourages the viewer to enlist and help those already fighting. In the foreground on the left of the poste...

    ARTV01135

  30. "Get into khaki" We are doing our bit

    Art

    Maker: Burton, H M Unknown W A Gullick, Government Printer

    Australian Army First World War recruitment poster. Encourages the viewer to enlist and help those already fighting. In the foreground on the left of the poster is an Australian soldier facing the vie...

    ARTV00152

  31. Gulf

    Art

    Maker: Watson, Judy

    Depicts three oil wells burning in a flat Kuwait landscape, filling the horizon with smoke. Anne Gray notes of this work; 'Judy Watson provided an environmental perspective on the [First] Gulf War. He...

    ART29731

  32. Hope for all mankind in war and peace

    Art

    Maker: Grieve, Edith Australian Red Cross Society Troedel & Cooper Pty. Ltd. [Melbourne]

    Australian Red Cross Society Second World War poster designed by Edith Grieve illustrating the work of the Red Cross: support for servicemen, families, etc. Tex and image are integrated. In the foregr...

    ARTV05008

  33. Inside a burnt, blackened courthouse, Dili, East Timor

    Art

    Maker: Sharpe, Wendy Elizabeth

    Scene inside a burned, blackened courthouse, Dili, East Timor. Page from large sketchbook no. 2.

    ART91187.072

  34. Keep his home fires burning

    Art

    Maker: Aria, George Aubrey Aria, George Aubrey

    A cartoon depicting Naples burning, while Mussolini watches on.

    ART92379

  35. Kiwi VADs around the fire

    Art

    Maker: Moore, Alan

    A group of New Zealand VADs sit around a fireplace at a rest camp in Farno, Italy. Standing nearby is the camp chaplain, Bob Davies.

    ART25732

  36. Kokoda headquarters after fire

    Art

    Maker: Nicholls, John

    A view of the headquarters at Kokoda following a fire; the native-built huts are shown in the background and two men are standing by the crossing in the foreground. This work was drawn by soldier arti...

    ART93237

  37.

    MacKay, Ronald Grey (Gunner, b.1894 - d.1921)

    Private Record

    Maker: Mackay, Ronald Grey

    Collection relating to the service of 39668 Gunner Ronald Grey MacKay, 11 Field Artillery Brigade, Egypt, England, France, Belgium, 1918-1919. Collection consists of photostat copies of ten letters w...

    1DRL/0445

  38.

    MAINZ, GERMANY. 1942. HEAVY RAIDS BY RAF BOMBER COMMAND ON THE NIGHT OF 1942-08-11/12 PRODUCED A ...

    Photograph

    MAINZ, GERMANY. 1942. HEAVY RAIDS BY RAF BOMBER COMMAND ON THE NIGHT OF 1942-08-11/12 PRODUCED A LARGE FIRE WHICH BURNT OUT THE CENTRE OF THE TOWN.

    SUK11139

  39. Malays and oil fire, Seria

    Art

    Maker: Flett, James

    An oil fire in Seria, Malaya. Malay workmen watering surrounding burning carbon deposits preparatory to an attempt to put out the fire.

    ART23350

  40. New Guinea

    Art

    Maker: Waite, Allan George

    Scene of a New Guinea family sitting around a camp fire at night time, with a village hut in the background.

    ART94072

  41. Night vision I

    Art

    Maker: Boynes, Robert

    This is the first in a three-part series of works commenting on the use or abuse of technology in the First Gulf War (1990-91), and on television viewers' detachment from the war. The series depicts a...

    ART90257.001

  42. Night vision I, II & III

    Art

    Maker: Boynes, Robert

    A three-part series of works commenting on the use or abuse of technology in the First Gulf War (1990-91) , and on television viewers' detachment from the war. The series depicts an infra-red camera v...

    ART90257

  43. not titled [soldiers creating souvenirs]

    Art

    Maker: Meldrum, J B

    Three soldiers are kneeling down, each making their own souvenirs to take away from the Mametz Wood. In the background are shattered tree stumps and in the foreground are some empty bomb shells. One...

    ART03192.008

  44.

    Oil fire at Haifa

    Film

    Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)

    Haifa, Palestine September 1940. Burning oil storage tank filling the sky with black smoke.

    F01035

  45. Oil wells on fire at Seria

    Art

    Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)

    Depicts a study of a row of holding tanks with billowing smoke overhead. The Seria oil wells were set on fire by the retretaing Japanese at the end of the Second World War. The first commercial oil we...

    ART96595

  46. Opfertag in Bayern (Day of sacrifice in Bavaria)

    Art

    Maker: Unknown [S.L. : S.N.], 1916 (MUNCHEN : O. CONSEE) 'O Cons?e, Munchen' lower right

    sword, globe, patriotism; poster with globe of the world behind sword from the handle of which an olive branch is growing, advertising a 'day of sacrifice' in

    ARTV06641

  47.

    ORO BAY, NEW GUINEA. 1943. VIEW OF THE BAY WITH SMOKE RISING FROM A SHIP BOMBED BY THE JAPANESE. ...

    Photograph

    ORO BAY, NEW GUINEA. 1943. VIEW OF THE BAY WITH SMOKE RISING FROM A SHIP BOMBED BY THE JAPANESE. (DONOR RSL NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS)

    P01467.026

  48. Paris burning

    Art

    Maker: Fraiponth, G

    The city of Paris under attack, with buildings destroyed and burning. A dog is seen in the foreground.

    ART92523

  49. Paris under attack

    Art

    Maker: Fraiponth, G

    The city of Paris under attack, with a building on fire. Small figures of people are running from the scene.

    ART92524

  50. Patient Dutchman "Praying Mantis"

    Art

    Maker: Flett, James

    "Praying Mantis" believed to be an apparatus used to extinguish fires in oil wells and a bulldozer.

    ART25468

  51. Plane Crash, Rabaul

    Art

    Maker: Hinder, Frank

    Representation of crash of Lockheed Hudson aircraft on take-off for aerial reconnaissance, with three figures in the body of the aircraft.

    ART28377.003

  52.

    Private Kenneth Colbung, Royal Australian Infantry Corp, interviewed by Bill Bunbury about his service in the Korean War.

    Sound

    Maker: Colbung, Ken Bunbury, Bill Colbung, Ken

    Collection of oral history interviews on the Korean War recorded by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio National 'Hindsight' for the program 'Korea, 1950-1953, The Forgotten War'.

    S01906

  53. RAAF Kittyhawks bombing Japanese positions

    Art

    Maker: Moore, Alan

    RAAF Kittyhawks bombing Japanese positions. No.76 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) fighter bombers were the first aircraft to operate from Monote airstrip, which was captured from the Japan...

    ART22274

  54. recto: not titled [kitchen interior with two men smoking]; verso: [blank with inscription] [page 3]

    Art

    Maker: Addison, Reginald Harwood

    recto: An interior view of the Third Field Company Engineers drivers' cookhouse, with steaming pots next to a fire and two men smoking.; verso: blank with inscription.

    ART92338.003

  55.

    Refugees, holding babies in their arms, recently returned to the burnt-out remains of their ...

    Photograph

    Maker: Parker, David Dare

    Refugees, holding babies in their arms, recently returned to the burnt-out remains of their homes, look on as more nearby buildings go up in flames. Members of pro-Indonesian militias burned many buil...

    P11326.007

  56. Schutz die Heimat...

    Art

    Maker: Bernhard, Lucian [BERLIN : S.N., N.D.] (BERLIN : G.M.B.H.)

    German First World War poster depicting a large clawed hand looming, as smoke, above burning buildings. The poster text translates as ; 'Protect the Homeland' and asks people to join the Voluntary Arm...

    ARTV06119

  57.

    Senior Constable John Foster, left, and Constable Daniel Reed of the Australian Federal Police ...

    Photograph

    Maker: Parker, David Dare

    Senior Constable John Foster, left, and Constable Daniel Reed of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) investigate arson as East Timorese firefighters, the Bombeiros, attempt to put out a major fire lit...

    P05381.025

  58. Signallers' tent on the shore of the China Sea

    Art

    Maker: Flett, James

    Night view of remote tent under the casuarinas that fringe the Borneo coast; drawn from a window of Fred Krone's 2/17th Australian Infantry Battalion YMCA house in the glow of the oil fires at Seria, ...

    ART25880

  59. [Study for Burning oil wells at Seria III]

    Art

    Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)

    Scene depicting landscape filled with fire and smoke from the burning oil wells, with artist's notes 'jet cream', 'blue' and 'fume ledges' in pencil on the work. This is one of a number of studies of ...

    ART96247

  60. [study of oil well fires at Seria]

    Art

    Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)

    Study of bridge undergoing construction work, with a pipe leading off into river below. verso: sketch of figures performing repair work on a bridge and oil lines at Seria oil wells. William Edwin Pidg...

    ART96599

  61. Study of oil well fires at Seria

    Art

    Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)

    Study of industrial scene with notes about colour, tone and environment. Australian engineers rigged up equipment to extinguish oil fires at Seria, which today is in Brunei. William Edwin Pidgeon (190...

    ART96598

  62.

    1. Trafalgar honoured 2. Australians assemble American Airacobras 3. Girls go to blazes. (Cinesound News No. 574)

    Film

    1. (40 sec) Navy men parade through Melbourne streets 2. (1 min 50 sec) Australian craftsmen master intricate details of assembling United States fighter aircraft [Bell P39 Airacobra]. Aircraft being ...

    F00600

  63. Troops camped in a Roman vault

    Art

    Maker: Abbott, Harold

    A reconstruction from description by Major Arthur Campbell Bennett (VX7499 ), 2/5th Australian Infantry Battalion. Whilst the 17th Brigade was in Cyrene North Africa in March 1941, two platoons of the...

    ART24082

  64. Trummer oder aufbau? Aufklarungs - Schriften durch die antibolschewistische liga

    Art

    Maker: Unknown BERLIN : BERL. ALLGEM REKL. GES, [N.D.]

    German post First World War anti-Bolshevism poster offering a choice between fire and chaos or rebuilding and prosperity. The 1919 campaign for the German National Assembly stimulated propagandists on...

    ARTV00133

  65. Verteidigt euer vaterland euer heim, eure lieben gege den Bolschewismus... [Defend our Fatherland, our home, our lives because Bolshevism means death]

    Art

    Maker: Safis, Johannes Vereinigung zur Bekampfung des Bolscheivismus [Alliance to Combat Bolshevism] Unknown

    Post First World War German anti-bolshevist poster issued by Vereinigung zur Bekampfung des Bolscheivismus [Alliance to Combat Bolshevism] c.1919. The poster features the image of a skeleton, encased ...

    ARTV00131

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