Photographs from the Australian War Memorial

311 items in this album on 16 pages.


Crew of HMS Prince of Wales escaping from the sinking battleship, off Malaya, 10 Dec 1941	HMS Prince of Wales listing heavily off Malaya, 10 Dec 1941	HMS Prince of Wales off Malaya after sustaining serious damage from Japanese air attacks, 10 Dec 1941	1 shilling Japanese occupation currency note for use in previously British controlled areas in southern Asia

21 cm Mrs 18 heavy howitzer, Soviet Union, date unknown	Aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious underway, 1942. A Swordfish torpedo plane is on the flight deck and an admiralty disruptive camouflage scheme also extends across the flight deck.	Australian Army Private Evelyn Owen posing with his invention Owen submachine gun, circa 1942	Australian Boston bombers of No. 22 Squadron RAAF in flight, circa 1942

Camouflaged A6M Zero fighter of Japanese Navy 22nd Air Flotilla at Kota Bharu, Malaya, circa 1942	MacArthur seated next to the Speaker of the House of Representatives Mr. Nairn, Provisional Parliament House, Canberra, Australia, 1942; note Curtin seated at table	Major General Edmund Herring inspecting troops of Australian 6th Division, Darwin, Australia, 1942	Robert Menzies, Winston Churchill, and John Winant in London, England, United Kingdom, 1940s

Starboard side view of the cruiser HMAS Perth, circa 1942; note camouflage using colors 507A and 507C and Seagull V aircraft	Wreck of Ju 87D Stuka dive bomber of German Sturzkampfgeschwader 3, North Africa, 1942, photo 1 of 2	A captured G.50 aircraft, Sidi Rezegh, Libya, circa early 1942	Australian troops crossing the Adler River as they moved toward Palmalmal Plantation, late Jan 1942

Chinese soldier with ZB vz. 26 light machine gun at Changsha, Hunan Province, China, Jan 1942	General Gordon Bennett of Australian 8th Division outlining current situations in Malaya and Singapore to journalists, circa Jan 1942	Pilots of No. 3 Squadron RAAF discussing operational plans outside their tents in Libya's western desert, 2 Jan 1942	Japanese type 97 Te-Ke tankette during Battle of Muar, Johor, Unfederated Malay States, mid-Jan 1942