Photographs from the Australian War Memorial

311 items in this album on 16 pages.


Members of the Commonwealth War Cabinet meeting in the War Cabinet Room, 1st Floor A Block New Wing, Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, Australia, 10 Nov 1943; L to R: Curtin, Sheddon, Chifley, Makin, Drakeford, and Dedman	Chiang Kaishek, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill at the Cairo Conference, Egypt, Nov 1943, photo 2 of 3	Chiang Kaishek, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Song Meiling at Cairo, Egypt, Nov 1943, photo 2 of 4	Chiang Kaishek, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Song Meiling, Cairo, Egypt, Nov 1943, photo 3 of 4

Australian Flying Officer John Smithson recounting a recent dogfight over Darwin harbor in which he shot down two Japanese aircraft, Nov-Dec 1943; note Spitfire fighter in background	Australian A-31 Vengeance flying near Merauke, New Guinea, 23 Dec 1943	Australian Army Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead and his wife, Myrtle Catherine Hay Woodside Morshead, circa 1944	F4U-1 Corsair fighter of No. 14 Squadron Royal New Zealand Air Force at Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 1944

Ju 87D Stuka dive bomber at rest, 1940s	9.2-inch coastal defense gun of North Head Battery, Sydney, Australia, 20 Jan 1944	Chief Justice of Victoria, Australia Edmund Herring shaking hands with Major General C. E. M. Lloyd, Melbourne, Australia, 2 Feb 1944	Westward view of No. 12 Prisoner of War compound, Cowra, New South Wales, Australia, 4 Feb 1944

Two damaged Japanese F1M2 biplanes on the beach at Rekata Bay, Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands, Mar 1944; note RNZAF Flight Lieutenant J. Beattie in foreground	USS Saratoga at Ocean Pier, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, Mar 1944	Boomerang fighter 'Sinbad II' of No. 5 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force in flight over Mareeba, Queensland, Australia, 15 Mar 1944; pilot was Lieutenant A. W. B. Clare	John Curtin and Douglas MacArthur at Fairbairn Airbase, Canberra, Australia, 18 Mar 1944

Two No. 79 Squadron RAAF Spitfire aircraft and ground crew at Momote Airfield, Los Negros Island, Admiralty Islands, circa Apr 1944	Prime Minister John Curtin and Captain Hugh Edwards before Lancaster bomber 'G for George' at RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, circa May 1944	Prime Minister John Curtin exiting from Lancaster bomber 'G for George', RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, circa May 1944	John Curtin speaking to pilots of No. 463 (Lancaster) Squadron RAAF at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, 19 May 1944