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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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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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Dead Japanese soldier in fox hole
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Hele depicts a dead Japanese soldier face downwards in a foxhole, Old Vickers Ridge, Salamaua, New Guinea.ART22504
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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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He should sleep well, he lies easily
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Maker: Mercier, Emile
On the left is an image of Hitler sleeping in bed. His bed-head is decorated with a swastika, and leaning on the bed-head is a figure with the head of Stalin and the body of a bear. Behind this, some ...ARTC00061
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Intelligence personnel searching Japanese dead
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Maker: Dargie, William
Two Australian intelligence personnel are pictured searching the decaying bodies of dead Japanese. Dargie noted, "The most gruesome task for Intelligence Personnel is the searching of dead bodies of ...ART23152
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Italian dead - near Bardia
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch of three italian soldiers lying dead.ART94541
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Japanese dead
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Maker: Drysdale, Russell
Illustration for the wartime publication 'Soldier superb: the Australian fights in New Guinea'. Depicts the remains of human skeletons. On verso; sketch of a soldier climbing a ladder. First publishe...ART28309.010
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Japanese dead from suicide raid
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Donald Friend accompanied the Australian forces which landed on the island of Labuan, off the coast of Borneo, in June 1945. The first drawings Friend produced on Labuan depicted the devastated lands...ART22857
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Kittyhawk fighters of 75 & 76 Sqdn RAAF strafing Jap tanks on Gilli Gilli Road, near Rabi, 28th Aug '42
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Maker: Dargie, William
This scene shows the attack along Gilli Gilli Road, with aircraft flying over and tanks charging along. A dead soldier lays in on the road, his rifle to one side. Dargie noted, "These tanks, two of s...ART22172
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Night march of the captured and a circle of the dead
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Maker: Winters, Michael
In this work Winters depicts events told to him by Captain William Travers of the 2/1st Battalion. Travers led his company over three campaigns. His relationship with his men and the respect he felt f...ART92807
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[Skeletal head]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Skeletal head in German concentration camp. On 13 April 1978 Nolan stated that this work had been made in London about one month after he visited the concentration camps in Germany.ART91368
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Sketch of dead soldier and mule for above incident [ART22222]
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a dead soldier and a mule. Muleteers under mortar fire at Damour, Syria. This sketch was intended as a preparatory study for a final painting of a scene from the Battle for Damour.ART22032
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SS guards burying dead, Belsen
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Alan Moore witnessed the liberation of the infamous Belsen concentration camp in Germany. For three days he drew and photographed the skeletal survivors and their persecutors, including the SS troops ...ART27621
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The Four Horsemen
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Maker: Francis, Ivor
A crowded picture that starts with Hitler, storm troopers and 1930s Lifesavers up the top and seeks to encompass images expressive of almost a half-century of nightmare. It has all the power and imagi...ART29378
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The Samurai sword
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Maker: Dargie, William
An Australian soldier stands holding a Japanese samurai sword pointing into the ground. In the foreground of the sketch are bodies of dead Japanese soldiers. Dargie noted: "This is the most coveted ...ART22163
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Two dead Japanese dead at dawn
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Two Japanese dead at dawn. The date and place made of this painting has not been confirmed, but it is believed the artist painted it in either Balikpapan, or Sydney, in either 1945. or 1946.ART25509