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Accession Number ART26784
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 32 x 43.2 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on hardboard
Maker Freedman, Harold
Place made Malaysia: Labuan
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Royal Australian Air Force, No 37 Squadron; unidentified ground crew repairing damage to Douglas transport aircraft caused during supply dropping to prisoners of war in. 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.