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Admiralty House, Tobruk
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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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'After the war', Bougainville bomb scared ruins, Rabaul
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Situated near the site of the old town at Rabaul are the remains of Japanese installations. Japanese parties can be seen cleaning up the mess, New Britain.ART23724
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Australian Headquarters, Dili
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Ruins of the building which was occupied as Headquarters by the Australian component of the Dutch-Australian Force that occupied Portuguese Timor in 1942. It was later, during the Japanese occupation ...ART26346
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B.B.C.A.U. Officials looking over devasted Brunei
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Maker: Flett, James
Wing-Commander Kay and an English Major landed with 2/17th Australian Infantry Battalion at Brooketon Landing and marched with them to Brunei and looked over the town preparatory to setting up the Bri...ART23358
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Beach Road, Balikpapan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
The scene of desolation along the Beach Road, Balikpapan, after bombardment preceeding the landing by the 7th Australian Division.ART23267
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Bombed area, Yokohama
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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 building in the Blitz
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Maker: Bayliss, Clifford
A building in London that was destroyed during the London Blitz is depicted. This was a common sight during the Second World War Blitz – a defining time for the English population, especially Londoner...ART93186
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Bombed house in Yerania village, Greece
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Maker: Dargie, William
Described in the Official War History as 'Yannina', and also known as Ioannina, the Greek town pictured here experienced the fortunes of war on several occasions during the 1939-45 conflicts. Captured...ART23978
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Bombed house near the air strip, Iraklion, Crete
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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 wreckage, Koepang
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a scene of destruction of a building and a wrecked vehicles, Timor.ART26138
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Building a picture theatre
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Building a picture theatre amid the ruins of Alexishafen, New Guinea.ART22403
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Burnt out
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Showing burnt out residences near the British Embassy, Tokyo. The Embassy buildings are unscathed in the background.ART22808
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Camp of 2/14th Australian Field Regiment, Alexishafen
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Camp of 2/14th Australian Field Regiment, Alexishafen, New Guinea.ART22404
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"Chariots of the Sons of Heaven"
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Maker: Bush, Charles
A pile of discarded Japanese bicycles heaped in a room of the wrecked house of Portuguese General at Same in Portuguese Timor.ART26159
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Clock tower at Victoria Town, Labuan
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Drawing of the clock tower at Victoria Town, Labuan, which was one of the three surviving structures after the Japanese evacuated the town in 1945. Writing for the Australian Women's Weekly of his tra...ART29342
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Das ist das Heil, das sie bringen! (That is the salvation, that they bring)
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Maker: Heartfield, John Heartfield Archive and GDR Government
A skeleton hand with bomber planes issuing from its five fingers, raised imposingly over the destroyed city with bodies of dead children in the foreground. This work was horribly prophetic when first ...ARTV09077
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Debris, Balikpapan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Showing the results of bombardment and strafing of a town prior to the landing of 7th Australian Division.ART23243
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Demolitions, Piraeus, Greece
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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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Destroyed Government Offices and Japanese A.A Defence - Madang
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Destroyed government offices and Japanese defences, Madang, New Guinea.ART22707
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Destroyed workshop, oil distilling area, Balikpapan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work depicts a workshop that has been destroyed by bombing in Balikpapan, Indonesia.ART22453