Australia & New Zealand

[Louis]

Australian and NZ nurses arrive in Crete, April 1941.

 

[Louis]

If you talk about improvising, this is the best example: Australians shaving with an axe! 1941

 

[Louis]

A Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun crew, Royal Australian Artillery, Sept 1943.

 

[Rico]

1942, El Alamein area. New Zealanders manning a Vickers gun

 

[mTk]

Looks like great LOS....from both directions.

 

[Gunner]

At least it's a shady spot.

Looks like the guy in the back is leaning over to get the flock out of the sun.

 

[mTk]

Or he's just using the gunner (no relation?) as a meat shield.

 

[Louis]

Australian & NZ aircrew and one of their de Mosquitos.

 

[Louis]

Female member of the RNZAF plotting aircraft movements on the plotting table at Base Ohakea, NZ.

 

[Louis]

Australian Army jeep train pulling members of the 24th Infantry Brigade. Beaufort, Borneo. July 1945.

 

[Gunner]

Getting it rolling must have been quite the trick.
I can smell the burning clutch from here.

 

[Nort]

Getting it rolling must have been quite the trick.
I can smell the burning clutch from here.

Not to mention stopping. I can smell the brakes.

 

[Louis]

Aussie soldier inspects an abandoned Japanese 37mm gun and shells from a Type 95 Ha Go tank, N. Guinea, 1942.