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Smith, James Victor (Warrant Officer, b: 1918)
Manuscript
Maker: Smith, James Victor
Original handwritten account (last page is missing) and later typed transcript of the successful bombing raid on Truk by Catalina A24-14, 20 Squadron on 15 January 1942. Also describes events leading ...MSS1243
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Smythe, Edward Vivian, MC (Major, b.1891 - d.1968)
Private Record
Maker: Smythe, Edward Vivian
Papers relating to Major Edward Vivian Smythe's experiences with the Japanese POWs in Rabaul in 1946. The collection includes a letter Lieutenant Colonel Murayama, the commander of the surrendered Ja...PR01204
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Surrender - Rabaul
Sound
Maker: Australian Army
Recording, made in the Japanese language by the Australian Army and used for broadcasting from Radio Lae, instructing Headquarters Japanese 8th Area Army at Rabaul to contact Headquarters 1st Australi...S00170
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Taylor, Archibald Norman OBE (Sergeant, b.1922 - d.2007)
Manuscript
Maker: Taylor, Archibald Norman
Manuscript titled `Tropical Paradise'. Describes the author's journey as he trekked through New Britain after the Japanese landed at Rabaul on 23rd January 1942. Detailed descriptions of evasion of ca...MSS1533
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The Last Post Ceremony commemorating the service of (3/37558) Captain Kenneth John Hummerston 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, Korean War.
Film
Maker: Australian War Memorial
The Last Post Ceremony is presented in the Commemorative area of the Australian War Memorial each day. The ceremony commemorates more than 102,000 Australians who have given their lives in war and oth...AWM2017.1.80
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The Last Post Ceremony commemorating the service of (NX52704) Gunner Richard Vernon Grimshaw, 17th Anti-Tank Battery. Second World War.
Film
Maker: Australian War Memorial
The Last Post Ceremony is presented in the Commemorative area of the Australian War Memorial each day. The ceremony commemorates more than 102,000 Australians who have given their lives in war and oth...AWM2021.1.1.196
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Tualinbari (Rabaul native)
Art
Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of Tualinbari, native from Rabual, the artist's batman at Salamaua. A pro-Japanese boy at the time of the Salamaua campaign but now working for the Australians, New Guinea.ART21225
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Tye, Allen John (Jack) (Sergeant, b.1908)
Private Record
Maker: Tye, A J
Handwritten diary February 1944-March 1945 kept by SX33687 A.J. (Jack) Tye, 7 Division, describing living conditions and recreational activities including films watched while on board ships Howard Syk...PR00746
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Type 97 Armoured Vehicle Light Machine Gun
Technology
Type 97 Armoured Vehicle Light Machine Gun. All blued steel construction apart from the wooden pistol grip and folding butt. The receiver is marked with the Nagoya Arsenal mark, the serial number and ...RELAWM29888
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Type 89 10 cm Anti-Aircraft Spotting Binoculars in Wooden Box: Japanese 19 Air Defence Troop, Buin, Bougainville
Technology
Binoculars in canvas covered wooden box. These binoculars are 15 power, with a field of view of 4 degrees. The right lens is graticuled 30mm up and down, right and left. The eyepieces are angled to t...RELAWM24696
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Type 89 Grenade Discharger
Technology
Type 89 Grenade Discharger. Constructed of steel in the form of a rifled barrel attached to a pedestal and curved butt plate. The trigger which cocks and fires in one operation protrudes through a len...RELAWM28924
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Type 89 Grenade Webbing pouch
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Canvas webbing grenade pouch 235mm wide, and 140mm high. The pouch accomodates four grenades in four separate 50mm diameter compartments. The pouch has a canvas flap, which is secured with two leathe...RELAWM29595
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Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun
Technology
Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun. All blued metal construction except for the wooden downward hinging traverse handles. The receiver is stamped on the top with three Japanese characters indicating Type 92 an...RELAWM28914
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Type 97 2 meter Stereoscopic Range Finder
Technology
Japanese range and height finder- 2 metre base length - the scale is graduated in metres from 400 to 20,000 and at the end an infinity scale graduated from plus 10 seconds to minus 10 seconds- the mag...RELAWM36188
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Type 97 20 mm Anti-tank Rifle
Technology
Type 97 Anti-tank semi automatic rifle. The receiver is marked with the Kokura arsenal symbol of the three interlocking rings, 15.8 (August 1940) and the serial number. IT is an all metal contruction ...RELAWM36187
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Type 94 No 3 Generator (Japan)
Technology
Japanese Type 94 hand generator. No. 3. No. 5558. 7- 500 v- The condition of this generator is good. The paint is chipped in places but there is no sign of corrosion. It is hand operated by means of a...RELAWM24709
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Type 94 Periscopic Sight for Type 92 (woodpecker) 7.7mm machine gun
Technology
Maker: Nikko
Five-power Periscopic telescope measuring 370mm from top to bottom. The eye piece, with diopter scale, is on a level with the top of the receiver, with the object lens at the very top of the sight. T...RELAWM29734
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Type 92 Telescopic machine gun Sight (Japan)
Technology
Japanese telescopic dial sight for "Juki" medium machine gun. Magnification 4x field of view 10 degree reg. no. 46878. Anti glare eye piece in case.RELAWM29834
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U.S. Bell Aerocobra
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
Three men are depicted 'gunning up' a Bell P39 Airacobra aircraft for a raid on Rabaul.ART29950
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(VX117109/V40104) Donald James Simonson MC, as a captain, platoon commander 39th Battalion, interviewed by Harry Martin for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.
Sound
Maker: Simonson, Donald James (Don)
Interview includes discussion of: birth, education and family details; father’s service in First World War; cadets and militia; called up and joining 39th Battalion in PNG; SS Aquitania; troops badly ...S00503