Sapper E A Hayne, 2/4 Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, examining the wreckage of a ...

Places
Accession Number 110816
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Landscape
Physical description Black & white, Landscape
Place made Borneo: Balikpapan
Date made 1 July 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Sapper E A Hayne, 2/4 Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, examining the wreckage of a japanese baby car found on the Vasey Highway during the OBOE 2 Operation. Note on the left at the rear of the car are Bangalore torpedoes which were lengths of steel piping filled with ezplosives to be pushed under wire entanglements and exploded.