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A. A. and submarine lookout, Red Sea
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Maker: Dargie, William
Ack Ack and submarine lookout, Red Sea. The sketch was completed during Dargie's voyage to Australia aboard the HMT "Felix Roussel". This was a Free French ship which, in company of the US ship "Holb...ART23898
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Ack-Ack pit
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
A Bren Gun crew on the look-out for enemy aircraft in an Ack-Ack pit in Libya. The anti-aircraft gun is a Bren Light Machine Gun (LMG).ART21911
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Airman in nose turret of Liberator
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Maker: Dargie, William
This is the Emerson electrically operated power turret, fitted with two 0.5 inch Browning machine gun. In the sketch the airman can be seen through the sections of bullet resistant glass, which, toget...ART21048
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Astrolobe Bay
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Maker: Belcher, Douglas Leonard
An Australian soldier is depicted sitting down, with a cigarette in hand, overlooking a view of Astrolobe Bay with mountains in the background. A machine gun can be seen propped up on rocks beside him...ART28247
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Barum village
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Maker: Belcher, Douglas Leonard
Depicts three native huts amidst a shroud of palm trees at Barum, on the coast near Bogadjim. A soldier with a machine gun can be seen in the foreground, and three other soldiers stand in the middle g...ART28241
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Bombing of Darwin
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Maker: Wanji Wanji, Susan
The presence of planes and the bombing of Darwin came as a shock to many Tiwi Islanders and it is an event which still has resonance today through traditional songs and dance. Originally from Maningri...AWM2016.251.2
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Camouflaged gun position
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Camouflaged machine gun position of the training wing at Georges Heights, Sydney. On the verso is a charcoal sketch of a truck.ART23683
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Chester Wilmot
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of possibly Chester Wilmot, a war correspondent. verso: Sketches of Japanese insignia and a 96 Brent type Light Machine GunART29947
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Coastal Patrol between Lae & Finschafen
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Showing Lae burning in the distance. Seen from P.T Boat 143, on the night of the landing by 9th Australian Division at Lae, whilst operating in the Huon Gulf area. The skipper of the P.T Boat is Lieut...ART22144
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Digger in captured Italian strongpoint
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian digger manning an Italian Breda machine gun in a captured Italian stronghold.ART26207
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Give'em both barrels...
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Maker: Carlu, Jean Georges Division of Information, Office for Emergency Management U S Government printing office
This is a sophisticated poster design by French artist Jean Carlu (1900-1997), who was working in the United States during the Second World War. The poster economically makes clear visual links betwee...ARTV06578
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LMG [Light Machine Gun] post, AMF [Australian Military Force] post
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
A rough sketch of four soldiers in shorts sandbagging a Light Machine Gun implacement.ART28378.016
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Machine gun posts, in jungle, raised on piles above level of flood waters of Maiwara River
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Maker: Dargie, William
The machine gun posts are made of a bamboo structure and have palm leaves creating roofs. Dargie noted, "These weapons had a field of fire covering the approaches to the nearby river. However, this ...ART23171
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75mm Japanese gun
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Maker: Belcher, Douglas Leonard
A sketch of a Japanese 75mm gun found in New Guinea. Ammunition can be seen lying stacked on the ground to the left. Sergeant Belcher, Royal Australian Army Medical Corps attached to Royal Australia...ART28235
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No 1 gun (possibly Basilisk Battery), Port Moresby
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
Naval gun and predictor at lookout; tree and washing on line in background. This drawing is from a series of eighteen pencil and watercolour sketches of military installations requiring camouflage in ...ART91574
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Not titled [Soldier holding a rifle]
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
A soldier wearing a protective helmt, and holding a machine gun.ART29324
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Private Kenna winning the V.C.
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Unfinished oil painting of the action that resulted in Private Edward (Ted) Kenna receiving the Victoria Cross. On 15 May 1945, Kenna was involved in an action near Wewak, New Guinea, during which he ...ART26188
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Radio checking on a General Grant tank
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Depicts a radio technician inspecting the wiring of a short range aerial adaptor on the turret of the tank. The picture shows the 37mm machine gun mounted side by side in the turret.ART25313
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[Soldier holding machine gun and wearing a pack]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts a crouching soldier holding a rifle and wearing a pack on his back. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, painter, cartoonist and illustrator. During the S...ART96688
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Soldiers in trench study for No 238 [ART22251]
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch of three soldiers in a trench with machine guns peering over the top of the sandbags. This work is a preparatory study for the final painting, '2/32 Battalion holding German counter-attack, El...ART26202