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A day with the Garrison Engineer and Staff, Tura, Egypt 1941-42
Film
Maker: Unknown
This item is composed of activities of unidentified British and New Zealand engineer units in the North African Campaign. The first part deals with the advance into Libya and then "A day with the Garr...F10035
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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 shots of bomb damaged city] (Ops 172 C/B 462)
Film
Maker: RAF Bomber Command
RAF Bomber Command Operational Film No 172. A low level aerial photographic reconnaissance flight over an unidentified heavily bomb damaged German city. Roll 3 is a low level aerial photographic recon...F02583
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Aerial views of Bougainville
Film
Maker: Scale, Clement Stewart
General views of areas in Bougainville showing heavy damage by shells and an aerial bombardment. Also scenes of Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit on Green Island and departure of 36 (VX38969) ...F07399
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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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After Darwin raid [bomb damage] (Darwin series, 3)
Film
Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Damage caused by Japanese bombing raid on Darwin. Troops training, firing various weapons. Rifle, Lewis guns and Vickers machine guns, Browning .50 HB M2 machine gun.F01176
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After Darwin raid Manunda in Perth
Film
Maker: Phoenix, Cyril Raymond
Bomb damage sustained in Darwin by hospital ship Manunda on 19 February 1942. Repairs to bomb damage made at Fremantle between 27 February and 5 March 1942. Report of damage in 2/1st Australian Hospit...F01175
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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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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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Atom bomb damage, Hiroshima
Film
Maker: Military History Section, BCOF
General view of the damage caused by the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The bomb exploded at 8.15 am on the 6 August 1945. Approximately 60 per cent of Hiroshima was destroyed.F07489
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Attack on Calais (Ops 232)
Film
Maker: RAF Bomber Command
RAF Bomber Command operational film No. 232. Time 15.59 - 16.20. Height: 4,300ft. Heavy attack by 646 (27 of 460 Sqn RAAF) Lancasters of Bomber Command on Calais. Markers can be seen going down and bo...F02586
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Aussies in Germany, RAAF in Brussels
Film
Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Australian airman in Germany; Australian and Allied POW in Stalag 357 and Stalag II B and in United Kingdom; RAAF vs BLA rugby, Brussels. Australian airmen with No 175 RAF Hawker Typhoon Squadron in G...F01274
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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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Berlin Recce's (Ops ?)
Film
Maker: RAF Film Unit
Berlin, Germany circa early 1945. RAF Bomber Command Operational film. A low level reconnaisance flight showing the bomb damaged areas of the city.F02627
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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 damage and civilian refugees] (Labuan No. 010) [Aerial views of landings and RAAF Liberators] (Labuan No. 013)
Film
Labuan North Borneo. No 010: Bomb damage and civilian refugees. RAAF camp scenes. No 013: Aerial views of landings. B-24 Liberator aircraft of 21 Squadron RAAF and 24 Squadron RAAF.F02144
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Bomb damage, graves of air victims, defences and local Aboriginal people (Darwin series, 2)
Film
Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Bomb damage to Darwin Hospital; staff working in hospital. Graves of air raid victims. Soldiers preparing defence position. Local Aboriginal people.F01179
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Bomb damage Singapore, guns men etc
Film
Maker: Edwards, Reg J
Singapore; bomb damage, trainer aircraft, anti-aircraft crews and Bofors gun training. Soldiers on field training. Mortar crew get their equipment cleaned and oiled.F01169
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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 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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Bombing (Darwin series, 13)
Film
Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
On 16 June 1942, twenty seven Japanese aircraft made a high altitude bombing attack on Darwin, hitting and destroying oil storage tanks and damaging parts of the residential and business area. This wa...F01188
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[Bombing raid, Mandalay] (India)
Film
RAF operational film of bombing raid in Burma, target unknown could be Mandalay. First scene is the bomb drop shot from the aircraft's bombing camera. The target is partially obscured by clouds. Scene...F02645
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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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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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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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Darwin Raid [Monty Tuckerman home movie: HMAS Warnambool, Darwin bombing raid and Ambon evacuation]
Film
Maker: Tuckerman, Victor Ernest Montague (Monty)
Chief Petty Officer Monty Tuckerman's home movie footage of the bombing of Darwin. Film reel opens with a handcrafted intertitle, "Darwin Raid", which is ignited with a burning taper. The following s...F11775
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Darwin's 31st air raid
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
General shots of bomb damage after Darwin's 31st air raid. Troops cleaning up wreckage; salvaging equipment from AWA House whch received a direct hit. D McNeill Department of Information still photogr...F01197
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Debris tunnelling
Film
When a bomb demolishes a building the urgent need is to rescue any casualities trapped under the debris. There are two methods of doing this by either clearing the debris or tunnelling through. Film d...F01425
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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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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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Dr Evatt's tour of BCOF installation
Film
Maker: Cuthbert, Allan George
Dr and Mrs Evatt, as guests of the Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) 34 (VX20321, VX80578) Lieutenant-General Horace Clement Hugh Robertson CBE DSO, made a tour of the BCOF installations today on their arri...F07496
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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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First bombing of Singapore. AIF stand to
Film
Maker: Nichols, Melmer Frank
Buildings being demolished by explosives. Burning building with only the frame left standing, black smoke and flames rising. An Australian 8th Division 25 pounder gun crew. Crew load and fire gun. Si...F01158
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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