Place | Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Dutch New Guinea, Noemfoor Island |
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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 |
Pile of main planes at repair and salvage unit, Noemfoor
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.