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BATHURST CLASS MINESWEEPER/CORVETTE HMAS BOWEN. COMMISSIONED ON 9TH NOVEMBER 1942 BOWEN SPENT HER WAR SERVICE IN NEW GUINEA WATERS. AFTER SOME POST WAR WORK IN MID-PACIFIC WATERS SHE RETURNED TO ..

MACASSAR, CELEBES ISLANDS 1945-09-24. OCCUPATION OF MACASSAR BY THE 2/27TH BATTALION. WHEN THE CITY WAS OCCUPIED BY AUSTRALIAN TROOPS, MANY ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR AND CIVILIAN INTERNEES WERE ..

SORONG, DUTCH NEW GUINEA WWII. JAPANESE VESSEL BURNING NEAR SORONG

BATHURST CLASS MINESWEEPER/CORVETTE HMAS KATOOMBA. COMPLETED IN DECEMBER 1941 KATOOMBA SAW ACTION IN THE DARWIN AREA AND WAS HOLED IN A COLLISION WITH THE AMERICAN OILER PECOS IN JANUARY 1942. ..

RABAUL, NEW BRITAIN. 1914-09-12. GROUP OF NATIVE SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT FOR THE GERMANS AT SIMPSON HARBOUR DURING THE CAPTURE OF RABAUL FROM THE GERMANS BY THE AUSTRALIAN NAVY AND MILITARY ..

The burial at sea of 121 Able Seaman (AB) Robert David Moffatt, Naval Brigade (Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force), who died of wounds sustained during the battle of Bitapaka, aged ..

BATHURST CLASS MINESWEEPER/CORVETTE HMAS PARKES. COMPLETED ON 15TH MAY 1944 PARKES SERVED IN THE NORTHERN AUSTRALIA - NEW GUINEA AREA AND ADJACENT WATERS. AFTER THE WAR SHE SPENT SOME TIME IN NEI ..

Group portrait of members of the 2/10 Field Ambulance detachment at Rabaul, New Guinea prior to the Japanese invasion. Identified in the back row, from left to right: VX26758 Private (Pte) George ..

CAPE WARD HUNT, NEW GUINEA, 1943. LIGHT WEIGHT AIR WARNING RADAR MK II, UNDER CONSTRUCTION

UNITED STATES TROOPS OF THE 32ND UNITED STATES DIVISION DIGGING OUT THE LANDING GEAR OF THE "SWAMP RAT", A DOUGLAS C47 AIRCRAFT OF THE UNITED STATES 5TH AIR FORCE, WHICH BECAME BOGGED IN THE SOFT ..

GENERAL STURDEE DISCUSSES JAPANESE TROOP DISPOSITIONS WITH GENERAL IMAMURA AND VICE-ADMIRAL KUSAKA AFTER THE SURRENDER OF JAPANESE FORCES AT RABAUL ON BOARD HMS GLORY, 1945-09-06

Evacuating goods from Kokopo during the eruption of Tavurvur and Vulcan volcanoes