Art PACIFIC EDU
The Australian War Memorial has approximately 38,000 works of art, from paintings, posters, and digital works, to mosaics, textiles, and sculptures. Below is a small selection relating to Second World War experiences in the Pacific.
Bomber Crash
by Frank Hinder
HMAS Perth Fights to the Last, 28th February, 1942
by Murray Griffin
Natives Carrying Wounded
by Sali Herman
Moresby Picture Show
by Charles Bush
RAAF Kittyhawk Squadron at Milne Bay, August-September 1942
by William Dargie
Ordinary Seaman Edward Sheean, HMAS Armidale
by Dale Marsh
Bridge Work, Burma–Thailand Railway
by Murray Griffin
Work, Save, Fight and so Avenge the Nurses!
by Bob Whitmore
Sponging a Malaria Patient
by Nora Heysen
Soldiers
by John Brack
Surrender
by Sali Herman
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