Photographs from the Australian War Memorial

311 items in this album on 16 pages.


USS Langley underway, 1945	Halifax B Mk III bomber of No. 462 Squadron RAAF at an airfield in Foulsham, England, early 1945	Australian Boomerang fighter of No. 5 Squadron RAAF taxiing past RNZAF F4U-1 Corsair fighters, Cape Torokina, Bouganville, Solomon Islands, 15 Jan 1945	Taikoo Dockyard facilities under American aerial attack, Hong Kong, 16 Jan 1945. Photo 2 of 2

F4U-1 Corsair fighters of Royal New Zealand Air Force in flight near Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 17 Jan 1945	Four Beaufort bombers of No. 100 Squadron RAAF in flight near Wewak, New Guinea, 20 Jan 1945	Australian Privates Leon Ravet of Parramatta and Bernard Kentwell on patrol with Owen Machine Carbines, New Britain. 4 April 1945	Engineers of the Australian 2/13 field company resting aboard a landing craft after a failed attempt to reach coastal wire defenses off Lingkas, Tarakan, Borneo, 30 Apr 1945

A Company of the Australian 2/23 Infantry Battalion advancing through wrecked oil storage tanks at tank hill, Tarakan, 1 May 1945	Men of the Australian 2/48 Infantry Battalion in landing craft, Tarakan, Borneo, 1 May 1945	Private D. E. Hailey and T. M. Conway of the Australian 2/23 Infantry Battalion in their Bren gun pit on the forward slope of B Company position, Tarakan, Borneo, May 1945	General Thomas Blamey and Brigadier David Whitehead inspecting a captured Japanese Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft gun, Essex Ridge, Tarakan Island, Borneo, 8 May 1945

View of airstrip on Tarakan, Borneo, showing extensive damage sustained during battle and some reconstruction efforts commited by 1st and 8th Airfield construction Squadrons of RAAF, 21 May 1945	Men of the Royal Netherlands Indies Army Forces conducting mop-up operations on Tarakan, Borneo, late May 1945	HMS Formidable going through the anti-submarine boom in Sydney harbor, Australia, mid-1945; photo taken from George's Head looking toward Green Point	Australian Lt Col Mervyn Jeanes, US Gen Douglas MacArthur, and Australian Lt Gen Leslie Morshead inspecting positions held by Jeanes' men of 2/43rd Infantry Battalion at Labuan, Borneo, 10 Jun 1945

Beaufighter aircraft of No. 31 Squadron RAAF landing at an airfield on Tarakan Island off Borneo, 28 Jun 1945	Commander Harold Farncomb at the bridge of cruiser HMAS Shropshire, 3 Jul 1945	Private Aubrey Carl Kotz and Private W. Spence of 7 Platoon, A Company, Australian 2/10 Battalion during Battle of Balikpapan, Borneo, 3 Jul 1945; note PIAT	Australian Lieutenant General Vernon Sturdee, 13 Jul 1945