Photographs from the Australian War Memorial

313 items in this album on 16 pages.


Captured Ju 87B dive bomber in a hangar at Benina, Libya, 15 Jan 1942	2 pounder gun of 4th Anti-Tank Regiment of Australian 8th Division and its crew near Muar, Malaya, 18 Jan 1942	2 pounder gun of 4th Anti-Tank Regiment of Australian 8th Division on the Muar-Parit Sulong Road, Malaya, 18 Jan 1942; note knocked out Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go tank in distance	Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go tanks destroyed by Australian 2-pounder guns, Bakri, Johor, 18 Jan 1942

Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go light tank knocked out by Australian anti-tank fire during Battle of Muar in Malaya, late Jan 1942	Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go light tank knocked out by Australian anti-tank fire during Battle of Muar in Malaya, 28 Jan 1942; note dead crew members nearby	Canadian-built CMP Field Artillery Tractor being unloaded from a troop ship in Colombo harbor, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Feb 1942.	Cruiser USS Northampton underway, location unknown, early 1942. Note her false bow wave camouflage.

Light Tank Mk VIB of 3rd Hussars, British Army on the wharf at Oosthaven (Bandar Lampung), Sumatra, Dutch East Indies, 14 Feb 1942	Bombs from a Japanese aircraft falling around the Dutch cruiser Java in the Gasper Strait east of Sumatra, Dutch East Indies, 15 Feb 1942	HMS Exeter firing on Japanese aircraft, Gaspar Strait, 15 Feb 1942; photograph taken from HMAS Hobart	Smoke rising from the port facilities at Oosthaven, Sumatra as Allied personnel set fires during the withdrawal, 20 Feb 1942

Australian troops in an Indian Pattern Carrier Mk II vehicle in Malaya, 9 Mar 1942	Cruiser HMS Cumberland underway in wartime disruptive paint scheme, 11 Mar 1942, location unknown. Note large aircraft hangar enclosure on the afterdeck.	Lieutenant General George Brett, Australia, 18 Mar 1942	Thomas Blamey, Douglas MacArthur, and John Curtin, Australia, 26 Mar 1942

Australian pilots of the No. 457 Squadron 'Grey Nurse' RAAF at RAF Station Redhill, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, Mar-May 1942	British troops landing on western Madagascar, May 1942	Air Marshal Peter Drummond, Minister of Sate in the Middle East Richard Casey, and Air Marshal Arthur Tedder, Cairo, Egypt, 4 May 1942	Air Chief Marshal Charles Burnett and Air Vice Marshal William Bostock, Australia, 12 May 1942