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40196 Sergeant (Sgt) James Rupert Wilson (middle) and 416205 Sgt Thomas Ian Butterfield (right) of No. 30 Squadron RAAF beside their Beaufighter aircraft. Sgts Wilson and Butterfield were lost on ..

Gasmata, New Britain. 1943-07-20. Aerial photograph of the Japanese airfield unserviceable after numerous strikes by Beaufighter aircraft of No. 30 Squadron RAAF. (Donor F. Cassidy)

Melbourne, Vic. 1945. Port view of the wooden hulled Uralba tied to Station Pier. In 1942 Uralba was commissioned in the RAN where she operated as a minefield tender and an auxiliary boom defence ..

The nose art showing a boxing rooster on a Beaufighter aircraft (A19-74) of 30 Squadron, RAAF. This aircraft later crashed into the sea off Goodenough Island on 11 August 1943 killing both crew ..

Bismarck Sea. 1943-03-03. Japanese shipping on fire after attack by Beaufighter aircraft of No. 30 Squadron RAAF during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea The Battle was fought about 40 miles north ..

Sparks fly from a lathe used by a bare-chested Japanese prisoner held at the RAN War Criminal Compound at an RAN shore base, as he prepares tools in the machine shop at the compound. Work on this ..

Japanese prisoners held at the RAN War Criminal Compound at an RAN shore base are working in the tailors shop at the compound. All repairs were carried out and all new garments made in the tailor's ..

Bougainville, Solomon Islands. c. 1944-02. Group portrait of Coastwatchers and native police, some of whom are armed with rifles. Fourth back row, left to right: two native policemen; Flight ..

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1944-05-13. Private R. E. Welladsen, a member of the Ophthalmic Section, 128th Australian General Hospital, testing the eyesight of a patient with the Snellen's Test chart

Manus Island. c.1948. Members of the Japanese War Criminals Saw Mill Party sorting and stacking timber for the construction of the new store house being built at the RAN War Criminal Compound at ..

Finschhafen, New Guinea. 1944. Indigenous (native) Papuans stand in front of a truck carrying knapsack sprays which carry a special oil, used to spray mosquito breeding places. The men work for the ..

Portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) David Marsh, a member of ANGAU (Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit). Marsh led a party of searchers for six Japanese crewmen who landed three Japanese "Val" dive ..