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Abandoned torpedo factory
Art
Maker: Waite, Allan George
Scene inside an torpedo factory, showing abandoned and partially destroyed munitions. This image was painted in the 1950s from a photograph taken in 1946 while Waite was stationed in Japan with the B...ART94065
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Admiralty House, Tobruk
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
Originally the Headquarters of the Italian Regia Marina, now British Naval Headquarters. Building was damaged by bombing, causing the collapse of the western wing. The red flag is a warning to town an...ART21741
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Aerial views of Hamburg (C/B 491)
Film
Hamburg, Germany circa 1945. An RAF low level reconnaissance film showing the bomb damaged shipyards, industrial and residential areas. The Blohm & Voss shipyard where the latest class of German U-boa...F02626
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Aeroplane graveyard, Nadzab
Art
Maker: Rowed, Reg
The Nadzab area - scene of great air activity during the Ramu and Finisterres campaign, now presents a desolate sight. A large aeroplane dump stands as mute testimony to the wastage of war, while odd ...ART23725
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AIF in action in Malaya
Film
Contains scenes from official Department of Information film F01171. Commentary, Charles Lawrence Cinesound Review. Singapore, bomb damage, fire fighting, bren gun carrier, Indian troops in trucks, 25...F00831
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Album related to the service of 3395 Captain Jeffrey James Shelton MC, British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF)
Photograph
Album of 42 pages including covers containing 153 items, primarily photographs, and 8 loose items, related to the service of 3395 Captain Jeffrey James Shelton MC, British Commonwealth Occupation Forc...AWM2020.729.1
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Anderson air raid shelter: Adams family home, Mascot
Technology
Maker: John Lysaght Pty Ltd Lysaght's Newcastle Works Pty Limited
Anderson air raid shelter. The outside of the shelter is painted black and consists of an internal timber frame which is covered by six sheets of corrugated steel sheeting (three each side). The corru...REL29034
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Bazuel, France
Art
Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts the village of Bazuel, in northern France. It is 4 km south-east of Le Cateau-Cambrésis, and 25 km south-east of Cambrai. The village pictured here has been severely bomb damaged. A German hel...ART02562.021
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Benghazi, Cyrenaica, Libya. Damage caused by bomb blast can be seen to the buildings. In the ...
Photograph
Maker: Le Guay, Laurence Craddock
Benghazi, Cyrenaica, Libya. Damage caused by bomb blast can be seen to the buildings. In the background are the domes of the Roman Catholic Cathedral.MEA0511
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Blast hole in wall of building, Darwin.
Photograph
Maker: McPhee, Ronald Alexander
Interior view of a blast hole in the wall of a building, an unidentified soldier framed by the hole in the wall.AWM2020.776.1
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Blown bridge in Brallos Pass
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Study for locale of picture of Australian Motor Transport withdrawing at night from position on Brallos Pass - Thermopylae line in 1941. The bridge was blown up by our troops in April, 1941, repaired ...ART24008
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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
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Bomb crater
Art
Maker: Koehne, Kurt Casper Irwin
Depicts a local Malaysian person swimming in a bomb crater on Labuan, off the coast of Borneo.ART96207
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Bomb crater, Noemfoor
Art
Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work depicts a bomb crater in Noemfoor, Papua, Indonesia.ART23813
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Bomb-damaged naval dock, Kure
Art
Maker: Colville, George
Depicts a painting of the bomb damage at the Naval Dockyards, Kure.ART26947
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Bombed area, Yokohama
Art
Maker: Goodchild, John
This drawing shows the devastation caused by incendiaries in an Allied bombing raid in 1945. Concrete structures were the only buildings surviving after two hours intense bombing. After the surrender,...ART22803
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Bombed bridge, dogs and sunset, Baghdad
Art
Maker: Connor, Kevin
A semi-abstract scene of a destroyed bridge as well as roaming dogs. A pink and red sky is in the background, a sunset in Baghdad.ART29752.021
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Bombed convention centre
Art
Maker: Connor, Kevin
Convention centre destroyed by bombs, Baghdad, Iraq.ART29752.007
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Bombed highway south of Basrah, near the Kuwaiti border
Art
Maker: Connor, Kevin
Tank, debris and a generally desolate environment of the highway south of Basrah.ART29752.052
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Bombed house in Elasson
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
This is a watercolour sketch of a bombed house in the Greek town of Elasson. Two men stand in the foreground of the image. Elasson was on the line of withdrawal of ANZAC Corps from Greece in 1941.ART23979
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Bombed house near the air strip, Iraklion, Crete
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
The town Iraklion is described in the Official War History as Heraklion. Heraklion was one of the points where German air-borne troops were landed in the invasion of Crete. The 2/14th Australian Infan...ART24042
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Bombed Ministry of Justice building
Art
Maker: Connor, Kevin
Two small figures in the foreground, dwarfed by an enormous building, the Ministry of Justice building, which has been partly destroyed.ART29752.022
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Bombed Ministry of Justice building
Art
Maker: Connor, Kevin
The destroyed Ministry of Justice building in Baghdad. A tall palm tree stands beside the building and people walk on the path in front of the bombed structure.ART29752.023
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BREMEN, GERMANY, 1945-05. BOMB DAMAGE AT BORGWARDS HANSA-LLOYD-GOLIATH MOTOR WORKS (137.3) ( ...
Photograph
Maker: Isaac, Cyril Hampden
BREMEN, GERMANY, 1945-05. BOMB DAMAGE AT BORGWARDS HANSA-LLOYD-GOLIATH MOTOR WORKS (137.3) ( DONOR: C. KROYER)P00687.555
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Bridge down on the Rhine, Nimegen
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
Showing a destroyed bridge along the Rhine in Germany. In the background bombardment balloons that are supporting chains, which entangle low-flying enemy aircraft.ART25723
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Broken bridge bombed near Basrah
Art
Maker: Connor, Kevin
Scene near Basrah, Iraq of a broken bridge and surrounding debris.ART29752.044
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Campbell, Keith William (Flying Officer, b.1923 - d.2019)
Private Record
Maker: Campbell, Keith William
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 423220 Flying Officer Keith William Campbell, Royal Australian Air Force, 1944-1945, Germany. The collection consists of a small diary covering ...AWM2016.392.1
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Collection of images relating to the service of Section Officer Maud Gilberd, WAAF
Photograph
Collection of images relating to the service of Section Officer Maud Gilberd, WAAF; 23 x photographs of DC-3 flight over Germany, post-war, to viewing damage caused by Bomber Command (includes externa...P12343
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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
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Collection relating to 1293 Staff Sergeant John (Jack) Rook, 38th Battalion
Photograph
Maker: Rook, John
"A farm that has also/ stopped a few of/ the Huns shells."P12715.046
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Collection relating to 1293 Staff Sergeant John (Jack) Rook, 38th Battalion
Photograph
Maker: Rook, John
"A crucifix. These/ are the be found by/ the roadway all/ over France &/ Belgium. Quite/ a number of them/ have been destroyed/ by shell fire but/ it is also remarkable/ how many escape/ when every th...P12715.049
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Collection relating to 1293 Staff Sergeant John (Jack) Rook, 38th Battalion
Photograph
Maker: Rook, John
"A Howitzer Gun rather/ badly hit."P12715.047
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Collection relating to 1293 Staff Sergeant John (Jack) Rook, 38th Battalion
Photograph
Maker: Rook, John
"It was a house/ once."P12715.039
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Collection relating to 1293 Staff Sergeant John (Jack) Rook, 38th Battalion
Photograph
Maker: Rook, John
"The result of shell/ fire."P12715.041
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Collection relating to 1293 Staff Sergeant John (Jack) Rook, 38th Battalion
Photograph
Maker: Rook, John
"A faint idea of how the/ places are smashed up/ by gunfire. There are not/ too many with as many/ walls left as this one/ has."P12715.038
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Collection relating to 1293 Staff Sergeant John (Jack) Rook, 38th Battalion
Photograph
Maker: Rook, John
"Services postponed/ during the period/ of the War."P12715.042
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Collection relating to 1293 Staff Sergeant John (Jack) Rook, 38th Battalion
Photograph
Maker: Rook, John
"What the Huns/ have left standing/ of a Church./ Instances such/ as this one are/ only too common."P12715.043
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Control tower, Forli aerodrome
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
A drawing showing the wrecked control tower at Forli aerodrome, which is surrounded by the building debris of bombing.ART25005
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Couillet, Belgium
Art
Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts destroyed German munitions train carriages in the railway yard at Couillet. In the foreground is a mass of twisted metal, only the wheels suggestive of their previous purpose. In the distance ...ART02562.010
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Couillet, Belgium [Aerial bomb damage on an ammunition train]
Art
Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts aerial bomb damage on ammunition train. Pictured is a mass of twisted and melted metal, carriages made indecipherable, and ammunition rendered indistinguishable. A crater has formed down the m...ART02562.013
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Delville Wood
Art
Left leaf of a double page sketch, depicting Delville Wood ravaged by the war. Barren, war damaged trees, muddy, undulating terrain littered with the refuse of war. In the foreground, the butt of a ri...ART03605.034.003
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Delville Wood
Art
Right leaf of a double page sketch of Delville Wood, depicted here ravaged by the war. Situated in the Somme region, it is adjacent to the small village of Longueval and was the scene of intense fight...ART03605.035.001
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Demolitions, Piraeus, Greece
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Piraeus, the seaport for the city of Athens, was the port of disembarkation for troops of the 6th Australian Division when entering Greece in April 1941. The damage shown here was caused to German ins...ART24023
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Derelict Dutch tanker
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Strafed and bombed, this craft is ashore just outside the Japanese submarine base at Tenau. In the foreground is a very old piece of and unknown craftART26338
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Destroyed palms, Noemfoor
Art
Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work depicts a group of destroyed palm trees in Noemfoor, Indonesia.ART25888
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Destroyed workshop, oil distilling area, Balikpapan
Art
Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work depicts a workshop that has been destroyed by bombing in Balikpapan, Indonesia.ART22453
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Dili airstrip
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
In ruins from the Allied bombing during the Japanese occupation. It was here that the section of 2/2nd Australian Independent Company under Lieutenant C E G McKenzie fought a brilliant action when the...ART26323
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Dodds, John Reginald (Flight Lieutenant, b.1917 - d.1944)
Private Record
Maker: Dodds, John Reginald
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 403838 Flying Officer John Reginald Dodds DFC, 460 and 156 Squadron RAAF. Collection consists of a diary written by Dodds in 27 very descriptive...AWM2016.70.1
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(34496) Downing, Francis John Leonard DFC, DFC (US) (Wing Commander) and (O35022) Johnson, Bernard Allan DFC (US) (Wing Commander)
Sound
Maker: Downing, Francis John Leonard
Wing Commander Francis John Leonard Downing DFC, DFC (US) (Ret'd) pilot and Wing Commander Bernard Allan Johnson DFC (US) (Ret'd) as a Squadron Leader navigator / bomb aimer discuss a bombing mission...S04275
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Drawing inside Fort Khiam
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Fort Khiam (or Al Khiam), previously part of Syria, is now within the borders of Lebanon. It has been the site of so many occupying armies from different nations that its name means tents in Arabic. B...ART30300
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Druce's Store, Baker St
Art
Maker: Meeson, Dora
A lone man walks past a row of damaged and destroyed buildings in Baker Street, London, following an air raid. Note the milk bottle on the doorstep at centre and the airship in the sky. Despite being ...ART26909
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Eight small drawings around Baghdad
Art
Maker: Connor, Kevin
Eight drawings of varying sizes taped onto the one sheet, showing a myriad of scenes including people, buildings, vehicles including a taxi, and civilians, some injured.ART29752.060
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First signs of war, Amman to Baghdad
Art
Maker: Connor, Kevin
A bombed highway and transmitter station in the road to Baghdad.ART29752.002
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Gordon's Hotel after the Darwin raid
Photograph
Maker: McPhee, Ronald Alexander
Gordon's Hotel after the Darwin raid.AWM2020.776.2
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"Gru's Story: Memoirs of RTFV" by J David Grierson
Manuscript
Maker: Grierson, John David (David)
"Gru's Story: Memoirs of RTFV" by J David Grierson. 64 pages with illustrations. Dave "Grusome" Grierson served as a pilot in the RAAF Transport Flight Vietnam from April to December 1965, flying Ca...MSS2295
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Gun emplacement overlooking Moresby Harbour; verso: [bombed house]
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
Two soldiers in a gun emplacement covered by a camouflage net are depicted overlooking the harbour at Moresby verso: A sketch of a house destroyed by bombing.ART29977
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Harleyville Wood, near Proyart, France [Chalk quarry]
Art
Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts the chalk quarry in the ravine which was 150 yards from the front line in the Harleyville Wood, near Proyart, France. The quarry was used by the Medical Officer (MO) as a regimental aid post, ...ART02562.016
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Hiroshima
Art
Maker: Waite, Allan George
A distance view from the hills surrounding Hiroshima, looking down to the epicentre of the atomic bomb and the surrouding destruction of the city. This image was painted in the 1950s from a photograp...ART94066
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Hiroshima
Art
Maker: Waite, Allan George
A scene of wild, snowy weather showing two figures walking on a road that leads up a hil past a stone lantern and through a tori gate. All around the road is debris from bomb damage to the city of Hi...ART94082
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Hiroshima (I)
Art
Maker: Waite, Allan George
A figure in the foreground clears rubble, while in the background are destroyed buildings and debris caused by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.ART94075
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Images relating to the service of Frederick Lucas King
Photograph
"Trench filled in by explosion of 6 inch shell 7th Battery position (Anzac)."P02449.014
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In occupied Japan
Film
Maker: Courtenay, William
Opening titles read: "The Daily Graphic and Kemsley News papers present "In occupied Japan". The historic document in Kodachrome of the first six months of life in the fallen Empire of the Rising Sun....F10003
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Inside hangar at Penfoei
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
The skeletal remains of a hangar roof at Penfoei, Timor, showing the damage caused by an Allied bombing shortly before the Japanese surrender. The roof was constructed from local materials, with bambo...ART26316
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Karbala had the stench of awful happenings
Art
Maker: Connor, Kevin
Three bodies in the foreground, uniformly arrange and crouched over, presumably dead. In the background are several bodies piled on top of one another. There are no other markings in the work.ART29752.030
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Koepang sketch
Art
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
Art
Maker: Waite, Allan George
Sunset through clouds over the coastline and city of Kure. The flattened urban centre can be seen, framed by the surrounding mountains.ART94078
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La Chiesa San Lorenzo
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
A sketch of an Italian church that has suffered damage from bombing. The campanile remains intact, however the roof has been partially removed. A wire fence lay broken in the foreground with some le...ART26626
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Little boy lost
Art
Maker: Fleming, Ian
A young boy, the lone survivor of a bombing raid, stands forlorn beside the bodies of victims crushed by falling debris. Surrounded by the smoking ruins of homes, he stands with his mouth agape, clutc...ART29192
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LONDON, ENGLAND, 1945-07. ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, SHOWING THE EXTENT OF BOMB DAMAGE SURROUNDING THE ...
Photograph
Maker: Isaac, Cyril Hampden
LONDON, ENGLAND, 1945-07. ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, SHOWING THE EXTENT OF BOMB DAMAGE SURROUNDING THE CATHEDRAL. (158.1) (DONOR: R. CALVERT)P00687.804
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Main Adriatic supply line bombed and strafed by RAAF
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
A railway line and surrounding buildings have been bombed by the 450 Squadron of the RAAF. Rock debris litters the railway line. This sketch features a hand-drawn pen and ink border.ART25717
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Mazinghien, France
Art
Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts the village ruins of Mazinghien in northern France. It was after the Armistice when the artist's battalion, the 6th, marched toward Belgium and arrived at this village on the 22 November, 1918...ART02562.014
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Mess room and Headquarters
Art
Maker: Flett, James
24th Australian Infantry Brigade, Beaufort, Borneo.ART25464
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MV Manunda Association
Private Record
Maker: Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service and legacy of the hospital ship MV Manunda, Merchant Navy, Australia, Japan, Egypt, Borneo, and the Solomon Islands, 1940-c.2001. Collection consist...PR05365
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Najaf devastation
Art
Maker: Connor, Kevin
Partially destroyed buildings, including a mosque.ART29752.031
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Najaf devastation near the Mosque
Art
Maker: Connor, Kevin
Partially destroyed buildings, with a truck in the foreground.ART29752.032
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No. 3 Sqn Mustangs flying over ruins of La Chiesa San Lorenzo
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
Showing aircraft from the No.3 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force flying in formation over the ruins of La Chiesa San Lorenzo in Forli, Italy.ART25720
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No. 450 Squadron Kittyhawks over wrecked ammunition train
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
Showing a flight of Kittyhawk aircraft of No.450 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force, flying over the site where a German ammunition train has been blown up by Allied bombers.ART25721
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not titled [Basilica of Our Lady of Brebières]
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank Rossiter
Drawing by Australian official war artist Frank Crozier depicting the Basilica of Our Lady of Brebières in Albert, France. This is one of a small collection of sketchers and watercolours by Crozier w...AWM2021.304.6
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not titled [bomb-damaged building]
Art
Depicts a war-damaged house, its roof almost completely collapsed.ART03605.051.002
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Observation Post, Hatu Hudo
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
View of an observation post at an industrial plant at Hatu Hudo, a village in East Timor. The 2/2nd and 2/4th Australian Independent Companies fought in this area when waging guerilla warfare against ...ART26324
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Part of cracking plant feature plant, Balikpapan
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Part of cracking plant feature shows the devastation of attack by troops in Balikpapan.ART25516
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Piraeus and Athens
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
The port of Piraeus, pictured in the foreground and the city of Athens in the distance seen from the entrance to the harbour. Note submarine tied up on right. These sites were badly damaged by bombing...ART23958
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Portion of the devastation of the oil refineries, Balikpapan
Art
Maker: Watson, Douglas
This artwork depicts the immense devastation caused to a section of the oil refineries in Balikpapan, Indonesia during the last stages of the Second World War.ART22452
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Pumping out bomb crater
Art
Maker: Friend, Donald
Pumping out a bomb crater. In the early days of the job, when water was a rarity and there was none to spare, the deep green pools in the craters were used as laundries and swimming baths, so that eve...ART22896
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Pumping out bomb crater, Labuan
Art
Maker: Friend, Donald
Pumping out a bomb crater. In the early days of the job, when water was a rarity and there was none to spare, the deep green pools in the craters were used as laundries and swimming baths, so that eve...ART22897
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RAAF Fighter bombers close-supporting NZ Infantry passing through Piazza Maggiore
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
Members of the New Zealand Infantry are marching through a street in the Italian town of Faenza, Italy. They are surrounded by the debris of war, including bomb damaged buildings. Overhead fighter b...ART26215
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Railway lifted by bomb blast
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
Drawing along the Italian coastline near the town of Ancona. The railway line leading into the city has been destroyed by aircraft bombing and the tracks have completely lifted from the ground. In t...ART25719
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Reconstruction
Art
Maker: Waite, Allan George
Two men are seen rebuilding a bridge over a city canal in Kure. Trees and intact building line the hillside along the canal.ART94080
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Rimini Railway Station
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
This drawing of the Rimini Railway Station shows severe bomb damage, with train carriages and tracks dislodged. In the distance are waves Allied aircraft.ART25726
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Sambreton, France
Art
Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts a member of the 6th battalion standing behind an overturned German gun that has been severely bomb-damaged. The dead bodies of two Germans can be partially seen; and a German dugout is depicte...ART02562.015
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Scrapbook leaf with a watercolour sketch of a sugar mill
Art
Scrapbook leaf with a watercolour sketch of the bomb damaged sugar mill in Cartigny, France.ART03605.049
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Scrapped Liberators
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Showing damaged and worn out Liberator bomber aircraft at Ward's Drome, Port Moresby, New Guinea.ART23524
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Searchlight on Japan
Film
Maker: Cinesound
Forward: Japan under Allied Occupation remains an important factor in world politics but the man in the street knows little of Japan today. This presentation essentially an Australian point of view m...F03522
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Shell holes
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts a war damaged landscape with trenches, duckboards and shell holes, on the Somme in France during the First World War. Charles Bryant (1883-1937) had some early art lessons before beginning hi...ART00175
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Shell-shocked trees
Art
Depicts a war-ravaged landscape on the Warfusee Abancourt Road near Villers-Bretonneux, an area which during April and the several months following was the scene of much bloodshed and fighting.ART03605.042.003
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Shipyards at Kure
Art
Maker: Tucker, Albert
View of the shipyards at Kure. On his arrival, Tucker spent some days making drawings of the devastated cities and landscapes including the dockyards at Kure.ART91453
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Sketch in Benghasi
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
Depicts a sketch of damaged buildings near the waterfront, Benghazi, Libya.ART21057
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Solre-le-Chateau, France
Art
Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts a desolate landscape in Solre-le-Chateau with a large bomb crater traversing diagonally across the centre of the image. Solre-le-Chateau is a village in the north of France. Pictured is a Germ...ART02562.003