Argus newspaper WW2 collection

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

B25 N5-208 is a Dutch one, see https://kw.jonkerweb.net/index.php/e...ell-uk?start=1

Any change of a link or caption of that photo so I can find it back? Searching https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ for SLV295 (name of the file) does not return any hits.

Attachment 131596

Try this link Hanno https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/discover...rces&offset=10

There are some pics of NEI troops training in Australia .

https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/discover...rces&offset=30

Link https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entit...16&mode=browse

[Mike K]

No, that isn't a Japanese roadsign on Tarakan!!
Date
[ca. 1945]

Indonesian lads give a helping-hand to members of the Australian and Royal Netherlands Indies amphibious Forces at Tarakan Borneo
Date
[ca. 1945]

Devastated section of the Tarakan oil fields as officers of a Netherlands Indies Technical Battalion inspect the damaged area ...
Date
[ca. 1945]

Men of the A.I.F. 9th Division marching in unidentified cities, crowds waving and cheering
Date
[ca. 1943]

Covered truck on dusty bush road
Date
[ca. 1941]

[Mike K]

Middle East arrivals in Australia

Looks like one of Hurley's doctored photos: Y.M.C.A. activities in the Middle East

Provost lineup in the MidEast
Date
[1942]

RAAF Mobile Works Squadrons to carve out airstrips & dispersal roads from jungle, kunai grass etc.
Author / Creator
Australia. Department of Air.
Date
[ca. 1944]

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

Try this link Hanno https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/discover...rces&offset=10

There are some pics of NEI troops training in Australia .

https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/discover...rces&offset=30

Link https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entit...16&mode=browse

Thanks Mike, that helps!

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

The Melbourne Argus newspaper WW2 photo collection is hosted by the State Library of Victoria. Just a few pics: I don't trust the links.

I've found the SLV website lists a persistent link, e.g. https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/permalin...39654241107636

"U. S. ARMY ASSEMBLES TRUCKS IN NEW GUINEA. Argus (Melbourne, Vic.) United States. Army. Signal Corps. 1941"

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[Mike K]

Shows soldiers with rifles jumping out the back of Holden built Chevrolet C15A 15 cwt. truck with No. 2 G.S. body.

Pupils of Victorian state schools contributed 1150 pound out of their own pocket money to purchase this truck for a R.A.A.F. mobile educational unit
Author / Creator
Australia. Royal Australian Air Force. Directorate of Public Relations.
Date
[ca. 1945]

Military trucks - Not for sale - Alice Springs
Date
[ca. 1945]

Military equipment sold to civilians
Date
[ca. 1945]

Empire garden party at Buckingham Palace for ex-P.O.W.s of the Empire
Date
[ca. 1945]

[Mike K]

Contents / Summary
Shows truck being manhandled up a snow covered road, probably in Tasmania.

Contents / Summary
Shows soldiers taking cover lying in gutter at Flinders Street; three soldiers lying under truck.

ARMY FIELD WORKSHOPS IN LIBYA

Soldier reading under truck
Date
[ca. 1942]

[Mike K]

Allied March April 6 ... tanks turn out of Swanston St. into Bourke St.

Fifteen infantrymen advancing in spearhead formation supported by Bren gun carriers behind
Date
[ca. 1942]

Laying telephone wires from Darwin to Alice Springs
Date
[ca. 1944]

Liberators at Darwin. Air Crews leap from truck on arrival at strip.
Date
[ca. 1945] The vehicle is a 1941 Ford military ute.

Troops on the move north from a transit camp in South Australia to central Australia (Alice Springs)

[Mike K]

Building tanks at railway workshops
Date
[ca. 1940-ca. 1945]

Camp Pell (Melbourne) U.S. Signal Corps
Date
[ca. 1942]

[m606paz]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

Pupils of Victorian state schools contributed 1150 pound out of their own pocket money to purchase this truck for a R.A.A.F. mobile educational unit
Author / Creator
Australia. Royal Australian Air Force. Directorate of Public Relations.
Date
[ca. 1945]

Beautiful pic.
This is a Factory or rebuild late Australian Ford CMP?
No money for rear view mirror..

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by m606paz

Beautiful pic.
This is a Factory or rebuild late Australian Ford CMP?
No money for rear view mirror..

Looks to be a 134"wb model . Yes some of the school kids must have spent their pocket money on lollies instead of donating to the cause..

[Mike K]

Bob Bennet with his Commando motor bicycle
Date
[ca. 1946]