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Air Support: Qantas Empire Airways
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Maker: Jardine, Walter Lacy Qantas W.M Brooks & Co. Ltd
Second World War propaganda poster designed for QANTAS by leading Australian commercial artist Walter Jardine. The image is a depiction of Australian soldiers and a Papua New Guinean in the valley of ...ARTV05158
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Biscuit bombers-heading for Salamaua
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force taking off on a supply dropping operation to Nunn's Post in the Salamaua area.ART23625
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Biscuit bombers on way to Salamaua
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Study for oil painting showing how low these planes, Douglas DC 3's which were referred to as "Biscuit Bombers", fly when on supply dropping operations. This name doubtless has some relationship to th...ART25775
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British products fight in Burma
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office Multi Machine Plates Ltd
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry of Supply. It depicts photographs of a variety of scenarios that took place during the general campaign to protect India from the Japanese advanc...ARTV06438
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Dropping supplies by air, Bougainville
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Four dispatchers about to drop supplies by air over a jungle clearing in Bougainville. Three crew members steady the container, called "storepedoes", in front of the open side door of the plane while ...ART94348
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Dropping supplies by parachute (Flying Officer Francis Hudson and Pilot Officer William Gerard)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Showing a parachute supply container (Mark V ) being dropped from a Dakota of No. 117 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force over Sandoway, Burma. Flying Officer F.H Hudson is kicking out a container t...ART24310
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Parachutes in the drying Shed
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Whenever practical, parachutes were dried out of doors, but wetness of climate necessitated construction of special drying sheds in which the parachutes were hung. Pictured, the canvas buckets are on ...ART21434
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Planes dropping supplies
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
Planes dropping supplies to the forward Company at Aiyo, near Bogadjim. This was the only occasion on which supplies were dropped in that operation. Personnel of 57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion ...ART25155
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Plantation at Beco
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Beco in south-west Portuguese Timor, was one of the points of which supplies were dropped from the air for the 2/2nd Australian Independent Company by Hudson aircraft based on Darwin. Stores were also...ART26164
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Refolding parachutes for Kai-Bombers
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
The store of 43 Field Ordinance Depot, in which the parachutes for supply dropping are stored and refolded. Two long tables are used for each parachute, a broad one on which the actual folding is done...ART22480
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Study for "Dropping supplies by air"
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Pencil study for watercolour drawing "Dropping supplies by air, Bougainville", featuring four servicemen preparing for an air-drop in front of the open side door of the plane. The supply containers, c...ART94335
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Supply plane approaching Darwin
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Maker: Wood, C Dudley Wood, C Dudley
The supply plane is khaki green in colour. Although small in size against a large vertical white cloud, the sole plane dominates the sky. The landscape below is dry in appearance, with clusters of gr...ART29220
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Where Our Men Are Fighting Our Food Is Fighting: Food Workers Are Key Workers
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Maker: Commonwealth Food Control
Australian Second World War poster. The poster states 'food workers are key workers'. During the Second World War, food was a vital commodity. This poster emphasises the importance of Australian food ...ARTV02125