Pile of main planes at repair and salvage unit, Noemfoor

Place Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Dutch New Guinea, Noemfoor Island
Accession Number ART26984
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 42 x 60.9 cm; frame: 49.4 x 67 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on canvas
Maker Freedman, Harold
Place made Netherlands East Indies: Dutch New Guinea, Noemfoor Island
Date made 1939-45
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: External copyright

Description

Pile of main planes at repair and salvage unit. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war artist attached to the RAAF Historical War Records Section and he worked here from 1944 to 1945, in Borneo, Noemfoor and around Australia.