Photographs from the Australian War Memorial

300 items in this album on 15 pages.


Wreck of a Ju 87B Stuka dive bomber, near Tobruk, Libya, 1941, photo 1 of 2	Gladiator biplane aircraft of No. 3 Squadron RAF returning to an airfield near Salum after a patrol over Bardia, Libya, Jan 1941	Major General Gambier-Parry, General Metaxas, George II King of Greece, Air Vice Marshal D'Albiac, and General Papagos meeting in Athens, Greece, Jan 1941	Crew of HMS Ladybird operating a 6-inch 50-caliber Mk XIII gun during the bombardment of Bardia, Libya, 2 Jan 1941

Australian troops rushing through the streets of Bardia, Libya, 4 Jan 1941	Fort Capuzzo, Libya just after British capture, 4 Jan 1941; note shrapnel damage to the Roman eagle column on the right	Smoke rising from the port of Tobruk, Libya, 22 Jan 1941.	Troops of the 11th Infantry Battalion, Australian 6th Division at Tobruk, Libya, 22 Jan 1941

British 6-inch CWT BL Howitzers attacking Italian positions at Tobruk, Libya, 23 Jan 1941	Captured Italian M13/40 and M11/39 tanks pressed into Australian service, North Africa, 23 Jan 1941	Italian cruiser San Giorgio after being scuttled in the harbor at Tobruk, Libya as Australian troops entered the city, 22 Jan 1941. Note torpedo nets. Photo 1 of 2.	R. K. Bryant of 8 Battery, Australian 2/rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment manning an Italian-made Breda Model 35 anti-aircraft gun, Derna, Libya, Mar 1941

Sailors of HMAS Perth in the Mediterranean Sea, March 1941	HMS York and tanker Pericles damaged at Suda Bay, Crete, Greece, late Mar-early Apr 1941	2 pounder gun of Australian 1st Anti-Tank Regiment and its crew near Vevi, northern Greece, 13 Apr 1941	German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis immediately after she had stopped Egyptian passenger liner ZamZam in the South Atlantic, 18 Apr 1941

HMS York and an oil tanker in Suda Bay, Crete, Greece, May 1941	Soviet tanks moving westward to meet the German invasion, 22 Jun 1941	Abandoned Italian L3 and L3 cc tankettes on the road overlooking Bardia Harbor, Libya, Jul 1941	Australian troops with captured Morane-Saulnier MS.406 fighters and a Potez 630 bomber, Syria, Jul 1941