Australian War Memorial (AWM)

Australian War Memorial (AWM)

GPO Box 345, Canberra ACT 2601
Telephone: +61 2 6243 4211

Impressive museum and research facillity the covers Australian military history from all wars and conflicts. Also, their website is a powerful research and search tool. Also, there is the seporate AWM Annex, the Treloar Technology Centre, where restoration work takes place and relics that are not on display in the main museum are kept.

AWM

Bradbury Aircraft Hall

DeHavilland DH98 Mosquito PR.41 Serial Number A52-319

CAC Wirraway CA-5 Serial Number A20-103

Cirtiss P-40E-1 "Polly" Kittyhawk Serial Number A29-133

A6M2 Model 21 Manufacture Number 5784 Tail Number V-173

Nakajima Ki 43-II Oscar Manufacture Number 5465

Spitfire Mark IIA Serial Number P7973

Lockheed A-28-LO Hudson Mk. IVA Serial Number A16-105

Lockheed Hudson Mark I Serial Number A16-19

Aircraft Relics on Display In Bradbury Aircraft Hall

Boston Control Colum
From an A-20C A28-29 which crashed into Jacquinot Bay in November 1943.

Boomerang A46-134 Machine Gun
From a Boomerang which crashed on Shaggy Ridge.

Turnbull's P-40 Machine Gun
Machine gun from the wreck of Peter Turnbull's P-40E A29-92, recovered by 61 Battalion.

Second World War Hall
Relics and displays related to the Pacific Theater

Bren Gun Carrier LP-2 Number 1022

General Stuart M3 Tank Serial Number 2033

Recovered from Buna, the turret and portion of the tank are displayed at the museum.

75mm Type 88 Anti-Aircraft Gun Serial Number 1000

Type A Midget Submarine

Tail section only of HA-21 (M22)

ANZAC Hall
Contains many other relics from WWII, including the Lancaster bomber, captured German aircraft and the Midget Submarine that attacked Sydney Harbor.

Type A Midget Submarine

Restored from salvaged subs HA-21 (M22) and HA-14 (M27)

HMAS Kuttabul

Wheelhouse from ship sunk by midget submarine attack