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A "Black cat" returning from night raid over New Guinea, dips low over hides' roof
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Hide's hotel, well known to northern tourists before the war, was the first living quarters in Cairns for pilots and officers of the Royal Australian Air Force Catalina Squadron operating from Trinity...ART25626
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A Mariner of the air-sea rescue flight at anchor, Trinity Inlet, Cairns
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A Martin Mariner patrol-bomber flying boat of the Royal Australian Air Force riding at anchor at the flying boat base, Cairns.ART25632
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Australian troops embarking for the Atherton Tableland at Cairns railway station
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Australian troops embarking for the Atherton Tableland at Cairns railway station. During the war the Queensland Government Railway system transported armies and fighting material. Although this plac...ART25695
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Black cats taking off from Trinity Inlet
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Showing Catalina flying boats of the Royal Australian Air Force taking off on a night bombing raid over New Guinea. From August 1945 in his capacity as official war artist Emerson Curtis undertook a t...ART25634
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Caricature around the bar
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Officers if the 11th Air-Sea Rescue Flight, Royal Australian Air Force, Cairns.ART25667
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First Australian prisoners of war from Malaya arrive in Cairns by catalinas
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Large numbers of Australian prisoners of war are arriving at the wharf in Cairns and being greeted by Australian officers and soldiers in uniform. A genial major reassures a POW who has misplaced his ...ART25628
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Gilbert (Gilly) Bates of Cairns
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Depicts a portrait of Sergeant Gilbert 'Gilly' Bates, VDC, also senior field officer Bureau of Sugar Experiment, Cairns.ART25651
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Officers and men of Catalina Squadron playing basketball
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Showing personnel of the Royal Australian Air Force stationed at the Catalina flying boat base at Trinity Inlet, relaxing during the day. They were operating nightly over New Guinea.ART25625
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Officer's mess, home of the flying-boat squadrons, Cairns
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
From this typical North Queensland house, young fliers of the Royal Australian Air Force went out nightly on bombing missions over New Guinea, to return when the sun was up, to a meal and a long sleep...ART25627
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RAAF ground crew overhauling a Mariner's engines on improvised slipway, Trinity Inlet, Cairns
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
RAAF ground crew working on engines of Martin Mariner flying boat on an improvised slipway, Trinity Inlet, Cairns.ART25631
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RAAF Orchestra Cairns camp
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Depicts audience in front of open air stage holding orchestra. Mountains outlined behind and sickle moon. The artist has added touches to this work since as evidenced by the darker (fresher) ink here ...ART28135
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Rhythm of the take-off
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A Royal Australian Air Force Catalina flying boat leaving Trinity Inlet, Cairns.ART25633
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The big figtree in Abbott street
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Beneath its great branches, an ugly concrete air-raid shelter stood during the war years, Cairns, Queensland.ART25630
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"Wharf sitting"
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Members of the Royal Australian Air Force and one American, all with island postings after peace with Japan was declared, wait dejectedly for air transport.ART25629