Kure J, S.L.F. [Special Landing Force]

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Milne Bay
Accession Number ART23169
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 17.8 x 22.8 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pencil on paper
Maker Dargie, William
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Milne Bay
Date made October 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

View of the beach at Waga Waga Village, New Guinea, scene of an abortive landing by the Japanese. It was following this landing that the Japanese received their first decisive defeat on land, Milne Bay, New Guinea. Dargie noted, "Kure J, Special Landing Force, was the Japanese Force which made the landing at Milne Bay. This sketch shows an anchor, a Japanese skull on the beach and, in the background, a stranded & holed invasion barge. The drawing is intended to be a study for a larger symbolic painting".