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Airstrip at night
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Maker: Thake, Eric
57 Operational Base Unit; view of airfield at night with flares illuminating runway.ART26971
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Japanese wreckage, Penfoei airstrip, Timor
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Maker: Thake, Eric
Thake shows Japanese prisoners of war clearing up the wreckage of their own planes at the air strip in Penfoei, Timor. This work is typical of Eric Thake, whose paintings and drawings are finely craf...ART26972
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Kamiri searchlight
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Maker: Thake, Eric
Eric Thake wrote to Captain John Treloar on 9 November 1947: 'The searchlight, I think belonged to the 16th American Anti-Aircraft Battery as they were camped on the other side and at the opposite end...ART26787
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Koepang Bay
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Maker: Thake, Eric
View of Koepang Bay from a Consolidated Catalina flying boat from Royal Australian Air Force, No 43 Squadron; on the day after Japanese in Timor had surrendered. Vessels conveying Australian occupati...ART26791
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Liberator's face
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Maker: Thake, Eric
Thake's view of a Consolidated B24 Liberator aircraft in Darwin, seeing the machine as some sort of crouching giant insect. Eric Thake was one of three artists appointed by the RAAF Historical Section...ART26970
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Military gaol, Alice Springs
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Maker: Thake, Eric
Military gaol in Alice Springs, with only the faint outline of a prisoner on the right, behind the wire. Thake's work concentrates on the Mulga tree posts, barbed wire and the red sand of the desert.ART26969
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Mobile workshop
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Maker: Thake, Eric
No 26 Repair and Salvage Unit; general view of mobile workshop operated by 26 RSU, RAAF.ART90134
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Parachute store, No 31 Squadron, Morotai
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Maker: Thake, Eric
Royal Australian Air Force, No 31 Squadron, parachute store, Morotai. From a sketch done one rainy night at 31 Squadron Camp, Morotai.ART26789
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Salvage dump, Port Moresby
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Maker: Thake, Eric
The painting shows aircraft components and wreckage at an American salvage dump, Port Moresby, New Guinea. The painting was made from sketches drawn in December 1944 at the dump a mile or two beyond '...ART26788
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Tent interior, airmen's lines, Tactical Air Force, RAAF, Noemfoor Island
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Maker: Thake, Eric
General view of tent interior in Airmen's lines, occupied by Sergeants Harold Baruch and Len Ambler, RAAF.ART26967
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Transport Section, 80 Wing, Morotai
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Maker: Thake, Eric
General view of workshop, made from bamboo and woven matting, Marsden matting on floor.ART26966
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Wrecked Lodestar
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Maker: Thake, Eric
The wings and fuselage of a wrecked Lockheed Lodestar transport aircraft, formerly owned by Dutch and then later owned by the Americans and the RAAF. When the plane was discovered there were nests fr...ART26790