Sappers of the 2/13th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, wet, muddy and weary after working waist deep in mud and slime to breach the enemy's beach wire entanglements ahead of the landings at Tarakan on 1 May 1945. (From left): Sappers DR Bidwell, RAR Stevenson and P Carrol, Corporal RC Mace, and Sappers JS Proctor, GE Maxwell, AJ Clydesdale and ES Slee. Slee was later killed in action two months later.

Lance-Corporal FG Gilbert, C Company, 2/48th Infantry Battalion, collapsed from exhaustion after carrying wounded men clear of a position, known as Sykes, on Tarakan Island, being attacked by the battalion on 6 May 1945.

At sea, during the voyage from the Philippines to Borneo to support the Australian landing at Brunei Bay, Sub-Lieutenant RH Whitten supervises radar operators in HMAS Hobart. The ship later supported the landings at Labuan Island and Balikpapan.

RAAF ground controllers man their mobile radio station, comprising a small convoy of Jeeps and trailers packed with communications equipment. They were giving directions to the crews of Liberator heavy bombers attacking Japanese positions on Tarakan Island on 11 June 1945. Air support helped to keep to a minimum the numbers of casualties in the Tarakan, Labuan and Balikpapan operations.

Crewmen of a Matilda tank of the 2/9th Armoured Regiment wait for orders to move in and clean up Japanese machine-gun positions between the MacArthur and Coal Point Roads on Labuan Island on 12 June 1945.

At sea off Borneo on 29 June 1945, shortly before the naval bombardment of Balikpapan, Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander CL Statham, RAN, supervises first aid drill in the medical station of the cruiser HMAS Shropshire.

A Jeep train, known as the Membukut Special, pulling out of the Beaufort railway station carrying members of the 24th Infantry Brigade. Engineers converted the Jeep to run on an existing narrow gauge railway.

Members of the Australian Army Nursing Service after landing in a RAAF transport aircraft at Labuan Island on 26 June 1945. They were on posting to the 2/1st Casualty Clearing Station based on the island.

Flying Officer Dave Hall, 1 Squadron RAAF, aged 21, at the controls of his Mosquito fighter-bomber while taxiing on the airstrip at Labuan on 7 August 1945. He was about to take off on a raid on Kuching, the main Japanese stronghold in south-wast Borneo. The Mosquito was widely known as the 'wooden wonder' because these aircraft were made predominantly from wood.

Packing up to go home at the end of the campaign and war, airmen of a RAAF radar unit stationed on Labuan Island carry the aerial unit of their dismantled radar station to be packed and shipped home. This was two months after the end of the war on 15 August 1945 which became known as Victory in the Pacific (VP) Day, otherwise known as Victory over Japan (VJ) Day.