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Adelaide River camp
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
The Adelaide River played a major role during the Second World War. It was in this area that the 119 Australian General Hospital and huge military base were established. The American and Australian ...ART27513
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Air Picquet (Gunner K Thompson)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
The subject of this drawing is 261617 Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth William Thompson, ED. Thompson died on 5 November 2001 aged 77 years (BS). Royal Australian Artillery, 14 Anti Aircraft Battery; Gunner...ART21686
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Americans and Aborigines
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Originally titled 'Australian Aborigines rescue shot down U.S. pilot'. Depicts the story associated with the rescue of 2nd Lieutenant Clarence T Johnson, 7th Squadron, 49th Fighter group, USA. On 15 J...ART22732
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Anti aircraft all the way
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Maker: Gilman, Don Office of AC of S, G-2, 14th Antiaircraft Command 650th Engineering Battalion
A poster issued by the Assistant Chief of Staff of the 14th Anti aircraft Command. The poster depicts a broad arrow heading towards a Japanese flag, on the flag is a listing of a number of battles, ...ARTV00538
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Anti-submarine defences, Darwin
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
An unidentified crew on fo'csle of boom defence vessel looking towards the horns; second boom defence vessel in background. Anti-submarine boom across Harbour maintained and serviced by boom defence v...ART22740
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14 Australian Anti-aircraft Battery (Bombardier William Richards)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Bombardier William Charles Richards, NX146567, of the 14th Australian Anti-Aircraft Battery, carrying a 3.7 inch anti-aircraft shell. He is standing in front of an ammunition storage recess in a gun ...ART22724
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14 Australian Antiaircraft Battery (Militia) Fixed Defences, Darwin
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
14 Australian Antiaircraft Battery (Militia) Fixed Defences, Darwin. This crew saw action when the Japanese first bombed Darwin. The Battery of 4 guns had, shot down 2 planes certain, one probable. Th...ART22719
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Battin' the breeze (Sergeant Frederick Nielsen (USAAF) and Private Sam Brook (Australian))
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy Cecil
Depicts Sergeant F. K. Nielsen, 9 Fighter Squadron USAAF on the left chatting with Private Sam Brook, returned for Middle East, Darwin. The objective of this drawing was to capture a typical American ...ART21346
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Bomb Damage, Darwin
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts two unidentified Australian soldiers, one bending forward, the other smoking a cigarette, near a bomb crater and wrecked house in Darwin, Australia during the Second World War.ART28042
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Bomb damage, 19 February 1942
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
The wreckage of the Post Office and Post Master's house in Darwin. The damage was caused through bombing by the Japanese on 19 February 1942. The postmaster and his daughter along with other post of...ART22723
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Bomb damage to Darwin township, 19 February 1942
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts an image of the coast and city of Darwin and the bomb attacks as a result of Japanese attacks 19 February 1942.ART22736
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Bomber Pilot (Flying Officer Edward Harding)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Royal Australian Air Force, No 13 Reconnaisance Bomber Squadron; Flying E A Harding, Captain Pilot of Hudson bomber, RAAF; raids on, and shipping in nearby watersART21348
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Bomber under camouflage
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Depicts a Lockheed Hudson bomber and airfield tractor under camouflage netting, Darwin.ART29703
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Bombing up, RAAF Base, Darwin
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Maker: Amor, Rick
The hands of two Australian soldiers shown preparing bombs in Darwin prior to the Peacekeeping Force moving to East Timor in 1999.ART91085
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Camouflage RAAF Defence Unit, Darwin
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
A group of men from the Camouflage Defence Unit sit outside tents.ART28374.001
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Coastal defence gun
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Artillerymen from the Australian Military Forces crew a 6 inch naval gun on the coast in Darwin. The gun is one that was manufactured before 1914 and is probably off one of the First World War ships, ...ART22186
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Crew of Hudson Bomber on return from Ambon attack (Sergeants Mossop, Frith, Madin, Flight Lieutenant Ian McCombe and Flight Sergeant Baker)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
l-r: Sergeant Mossop, Wireless rear-gunner, Sergeant Firth, wireless air-gunner, Sergeant Madin, observer/ navigator/ bomb aimer, 250813 Flight Lieutenant (later Squadron Leader, DFC) Ian A McCombe, p...ART22731
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Darwin harbour
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Maker: Wood, C Dudley
The time is 1941-2. This is a general view of Darwin Harbour, prior to attacks by the Japanese. The artist has depicted a variety of craft, ranging from merchant vessels, to a warship, and barge. A...ART29218
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Darwin harbour
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Showing unidentified Boom Defence vessel in foreground and two of the nine ships sunk by enemy air action. The "Manna-Loa" (right) and the "Meggs". In the far background is the leper island, geograph...ART22725
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Darwin, harbour front
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Depicts a panoramic view of the harbour front, unidentified vessels in port, Darwin.ART26124
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Deserted trenches, Darwin
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Maker: Wood, C Dudley Wood, C Dudley
The trench has a dark, shaded entrance which is supported by pilasters of piled stones. It is accessed by a broken ladder, which descends from high ground of red dirt. The trench is located amongst s...ART29212
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First air-raid on Australia, 19 February 1942
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
This work was drawn from a small set of photographs taken by an able seaman on a corvette on the day that the Japanese first bombed Darwin. The SS Neptuna was bombed whilst berthed at the Darwin Jett...ART22831
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First 'Zero' Japanese fighter brought down on Australian mainland
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
The wreckage of an aircraft shot down over the mainland in Darwin on 19 February 1942. This aircraft is not actually a Zero as it is referred to by the artist but instead is a Aichi D3A carrier based...ART21687
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Flying Officer Richard Overhue
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Portrait depicting Flying Officer Richard F. Overhue, of the Royal Australian Air Force, relaxed, writing home in the Darwin bush outside his tent, with his feet propped on his improvised bathroom rig...ART21689
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Gasmask practice
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Depicts an unidentified soldier, seated, wearing gas mask and respirator and holding protective (tin) helmet, Darwin.ART25975
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Gunner Jackie Peacock
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts a portrait of Gunner Jackie Peacock, 14 Australian Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Australian Artillery. In the background is a headland, on the end of which is located the boom on a defence whar...ART22727
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Helicopter, Darwin
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Maker: Amor, Rick
Close-up view of the front of a helicopter. This is Amor's appropriated version of the image by Eric Thake 'Liberator's face' (ART26970).ART91050
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HMAS Darwin and HMAS Adelaide at HMAS Stirling, WA, prior to departure for the Gulf, 22/8/90
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Maker: Norton, Lynne
Depicts the ships HMAS Darwin and HMAS Adelaide at HMAS Stirling, Cockburn Sound, in Western Australia. The ships are two RAN guided missile frigates, alongside the wharf at shore station HMAS Stirlin...ART29484
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Hospital marquee at 119th Field Hospital
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Depicts a partial view of hospital bed and personnel inside marquee encampment, 119th Field Hospital, Darwin.ART29704
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Lewis gun attached to 14 Australian Anti-aircraft Battery, Darwin (Gunner Tommy Hill and Gunner Neil Cook)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Anti-aircraft defences of the 14th Anti-Aircaft Battery, gunners Thomas Hill (left) and Neil Cook operating a Lewis machine gun in a sandbagged gun pit.ART22720
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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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Lieutenant Don Brown and Sergeant John Ash
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts Lieutenant D.N.B Brown and Sergeant J. Ash. Lieutenant D.N.B Brown, section commander of Anti-Aircraft, Light Machine Gun Section, 14th Australian Anti-Aircraft Battery who were defending the ...ART22722
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Night air raid
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Maker: Wood, C Dudley
This image is of men leaving their tent to shelter in a slit trench during a raid by the Japanese Air Force. Two men crouch forwards; one is in shorts and another in pyjama bottoms. A third man fac...ART29214
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Notes on aerial warfare over Port Darwin, 4th April 1942
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Aerial warfare over Port Darwin. U.S. Air Corps, 5 Fighter Command of 49 Group, 9 Squadron, went up to meet a force of Japanese bombers and Zero fighters. The 14th Australian Anti-Aircraft Battery fir...ART29708
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Observation Post, Darwin
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Depicts two unidentified men standing at the entrance of defence observation post or pill box, camouflage netting and triangle for alarm signal post, Darwin.ART28400
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Observation Post interior
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Depicts unidentified group inside observation post looking through window slits and using telescope, 9 Battery Observation Post, Darwin.ART26996
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[Oil tanks ablaze, 16 June 1942]
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
The Japanese patterned-bombed the township of Darwin. On this occasion the oil tanks were hit, burning furiously for 3 days. In the foreground are the workshops and yards attached to the Boom Defence ...ART26629
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Pillbox, Darwin
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Maker: Wood, C Dudley
The Pillbox has an open door, which rests against sandbags. The building is surrounded by tropical foliage, including small palm trees. There is a suggestion of ropes or netting attached to the build...ART29209
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Pilot Officer Douglas McKenzie
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Portrait depicting Pilot Douglas McKenzie, RAAF, observer, gunner, bomb aimer and navigator, seated on a bed in the soldiers encampment Darwin, pulling on his boots.ART21690
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Post office ruin, Darwin
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
This painting shows a bomb damaged Post Office in Darwin. Sections from the roof are destroyed and the building is surrounded by rubble and a broken fence. Dark clouds loom over the scene.ART26121
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Self portrait in a ballistic helmet, Robertson Barracks, Northern Territory
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Maker: Amor, Rick
Self portrait wearing ballistic helmet.ART91079
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Spitfires attacking Japanese raiders over Darwin, 6 July 1943
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Maker: Freedman, Harold
Depicts a squadron of Supermarine Spitfires in action against Japanese aircraft over Darwin towards the end of the Second World War. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was a...ART27577
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Temperature 104 degrees
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Shows a group of unidentified Australian soldiers, some engaged in a scuffle, others watching, in an outdoor canteen. This canteen was built under the shade of trees known as "Burke and Wills".ART22714
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US Fighter Ace
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
A portrait of Lieutenant Andrew J Reynolds, an American pilot with the 9th Fighter Squadron in the United States Air Force. He flew P40E Kittyhawks and was described as a fighter ace.ART22735