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Informal group of 9 men at a long table wearing military uniforms and paper party hats raise tin mugs in their hands

Christmas for Australians away from home during World War II

This is a recruiting poster for the WAAAF, with an image of a uniformed WAAAF in the centre. The poster has the slogan 'Keep them flying! There's a job for you in the WAAAF' printed in red. In a grey box on the lower left, 'Apply at RAAF Recruiting Centre

All in—The Australian homefront 1939-1945

A local wireless telegraphist operator operating an AWA 3BZ teleradio at Segi Coastwatchers station, British Solomon Islands

The Coastwatchers 1941-1945

Gaunt, skeletal figures lying on beds inside a hospital on the Burma-Thailand railway. Griffin's use of light and shade in this work accentuates the physical condition and obvious suffering of the men as well as drawing comparisons to the depths of hell

Australian Prisoners of War 1940-1945

A group photo of Indigenous men wearing suits

Indigenous Australians in service during World War II

High view over undulating pastoral land showing 4 groups of about 20 small demountable buildings in the foreground

Cowra Breakout in Australia during World War II