Photographs from the Australian War Memorial

312 items in this album on 16 pages.


Air Vice Marshal George Jones, Air Vice-Marshal W. D. Bostock, and Air Chief Marshal Charles Burnett, Australia, 12 May 1942	Chinese and Indian soldiers in Burma, 20 May 1942	Cruiser USS Chicago underway in Sydney Harbor, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, before the Japanese midget submarine attack that took place later that night, May 31, 1942	Hulk of Japanese Type A midget submarine recovered from Sydney Harbor after being destroyed in the 31 May 1942 raid, Jun 1942.

Light Armoured Car (Aust) 'Rover', Puckapunyal military base, Victoria, Australia, Jun 1942; noting driver giving the 'start up' signal	A Japanese Ko-hyoteki class midget submarine raised from of Sydney Harbor the day after the submarine attack in Sydney Harbor, New South Wales, Australia, Jun 1 1942	Japanese Type 98 torpedo that ran aground on Green Island in Sydney Harbor during the submarine attack 9 days earlier being prepared for recovery, Sydney, Australia, Jun 10, 1942. Note the sandbags.	Destroyer HMAS Nestor listing to port after being abandoned, morning of 16 Jun 1942

25-pounder gun of Australian 2/8th Field Regiment near El Alamein, Egypt, 12 Jul 1942	Capt TI Gellibrand and Lt JT Cook with the Australian 24th Infantry Brigade HQ, and Lt ET Pearce use the hood of a Willys MB Jeep to check a map, west of El Alamein, Egypt, 19 Jul 1942	Willys MB Jeep in the service of Australian 2/48th infantry battalion in Egypt's western desert, 20 Jul 1942	Damaged SdKfz 6/3 Diana self-propelled gun of German 605th Tank Destroyer Division, near El Alamein, Egypt, circa early Aug 1942

DC-5 (not yet C-110) flying from Australia to Port Moresby, New Guinea, Aug 1942. This plane would be destroyed on the ground by Japanese strafing at 5-Mile Strip, Port Moresby, New Guinea on Aug 17, 1942.	Heavy cruiser USS Vincennes on her way to Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, early Aug 1942. Vincennes was lost within a week. Note modified Measure 12 paint scheme.	Kingfisher aircraft of No. 1 Flying Boat Repair Depot RAAF at rest, Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia, Aug 1942	Winston Churchill, Leslie Morshead, Claude Auchinleck, and W. H. C. Ramsden (background) at 9th Australian Division headquarters, El Alamein, Egypt, 5 Aug 1942

Akimoto Tamotsu and Koitabashi Hiroshi flying their D3A carrier dive bomber (foreground) returning to carrier Shokaku after attacking USS Enterprise during Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942	Australian Army engineers with a captured Daihatsu-class landing craft, Milne Bay, Sep 1942	Australian corvette HMAS Armidale in Port Moresby harbor, New Guinea, Sep 1942	RAAF Squadron Leader Keith W “Bluey” Truscott taxiing his P-40E Kittyhawk along the Marston Mats at Milne Bay Fighter Strip #3, Milne Bay, New Guinea, Sep 1942.