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Japanese air attacks on Darwin Harbour, 19th February 1942
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Maker: Swain, Keith
This historical painting is a reinterpretation of the Japanese air raid on Darwin on 19 February 1942. Japanese aircraft fly overhead, while the focus of the painting is the Royal Australian Navy cor...ART28075
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[Japanese Air Force]
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Maker: Unknown Unknown Nitto
This rare Japanese poster issued in Thailand was souvenired at the end of the war from a railway station by an Australian POW who had worked on the Thai Burma Railway. The Japanese text translates as ...ARTV09032
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Japanese Community Grave
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work depicts the burial site of a Japanese soldier in the foreground. A plank of wood has been stuck into the dirt mound, marking the site, and has Japanese text written on it. In the background ...ART22705
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Japanese ship blasted out of the sea, Lae
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Maker: Herman, Sali
The painting depicts a Japanese ship grounded a few miles outside Lae, New Guinea. The ship the 'Myoko Maru' (also called the 'Malahang wreck') was in direct line with the airstrip at Lae so Australia...ART22839
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"Japanese Surrender"
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Maker: Marcuse, Ernest Henry
Drawing titled "Japanese Surrender" by E H Marcuse. Ernest Marcuse (1900 – 1985) was a German born Jewish artist. Marcuse (V377746) served in the Australian Army, 4th Employment Company in the Second...AWM2018.254.52
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Koepang sketch
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicting a scene in war-damaged Koepang, the principal town in Dutch Timor. Koepang was in Japanese hands for most of the war period and suffered from Allied air raids.ART26171
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Kure, Japan
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Wreckage in the Kure shipyards, Japan. On his visit to Japan in 1947, Albert Tucker documented in a series of works on paper, the result of Allied bombing raids.ART28471
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Kyoto Maru, Malahang Beach
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Shipwreck is likely to be the Myoko Maru, also known as the "Malahang Wreck", which was still intact when the Allies captured Lae in September 1943. On board were bicycles, barbed wire and motorcycles...ART94336
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Lingayen Gulf
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Maker: Hall, Alan
A comic strip of an attack upon Royal Australian Navy ships by Japanese aircraft. The artist Alan Hall enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years. During the Second Wo...ART93355
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Main Street, Brunei
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts a view of Brunei, the remains of wrecked buildings caused by naval gunfire and aerial bombing in main shopping street of Brunei when Australian troops occupied the town. Douglas Watson joined...ART22994
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Malays and oil fire, Seria
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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
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Meat for Britain...
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Maker: Commonwealth Rationing Commission F W Niven Pty Ltd
Issued by the Commonwealth Rationing Commission in 1943 this poster promotes the sending of Australian meat to Britain. In the upper half of the poster is a photograph showing meat being loaded onto a...ARTV00260
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Merdjayoun
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a reconstructed view of action at the Battle of Merdjayoun (19 June 1941 - 24 June 1941). The work is softly described, with pastel blues and yellows, lending an air of unreality to the smok...ART30059
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Mining scene
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
A sketched landscape with buildlings in the background and rubble in the foreground.ART29838
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Morotai
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Maker: Waite, Allan George
Scene across the shoreline of Morotai, showing the aftermatch of battle, including a jetty, shattered trees and destroyed, or abandoned aircraft floating in the ocean. This image was painted in the 1...ART94070
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Native labourers beginning to move burnt-out wreckage in dock area
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Maker: Buckmaster, Ernest
Ernest Buckmaster was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne on July 3 1897. After being rejected for military service due to his physical frailty Buckmaster attended the National Gallery Art School from 1918-24...ART23376
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Nature Morte
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Sketch of unidentified Japanese killed by AIF patrol during the Second World War. This is a preparatory sketch for the final painting, 'Japanese dead from suicide raid, Labuan' [ART22857].ART22183
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Nazywam sie Meier... [My name is Meier if one british bomb falls on Berlin]
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Maker: Toegel, Stanislaw Markiewicz, Antoni F W Dobereiner
Caricature of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring (1893-1946) striding through the ruins of Berlin. He is dressed in full dress uniform and carries his jewel encrusted Reichsmarschall baton in his left han...ART96184.008
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Occupation of Tank Knoll, Tarakan
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
The first troops on the summit are shown here. They are members of 2/23rd Australian Infantry Battalion who occupied the hill after landing at Green Beach, Tarakan, Borneo, 1945.ART26032
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Palenie synagogi (The burning of the synagogue)
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Maker: Slawik, Bernard
A Jewish synagogue being burned by the Nazis in Poland. Several figures are watching the scene. The atmosphere is one of shock and disbelief. The buildings around the burning synagogue are reminiscent...ART90343