Halo wantok!

PORT MORESBY, PAPUA, 1942-07. AUSTRALIAN "DIGGER" HUMOUR CHANGED THE NAME OF THIS NEW GUINEA HOTEL FROM "STARVIEW" TO "STARV-U", BUT THERE IS NOT MUCH SIGN OF HUNGER IN THIS PICTURE

PORT MORESBY, PAPUA, 1942-07-11. AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY CONDUCTING MANOEUVRES IN DENSE TROPICAL BUSH IN NEW GUINEA. HERE SOME OF THE TROOPS ARE RESTING DURING A BREAK IN THE EXERCISE

PORT MORESBY, PAPUA, 1942-07-11. THREE AMERICAN FIGHTER-PILOTS STUDYING THE IDENTIFICATION CHART OF JAPANESE AIRCRAFT. THEY ARE FLYING AIRA-COBRA FIGHTER-PLANES IN THE NEW GUINEA WAR ZONE

PORT MORESBY, PAPUA, 1942-07-20. A NATIVE WOODEN MASK, SOUVENIRED BY AN AUSTRALIAN SERVING IN NEW GUINEA

PARI BEACH, PAPUA, 1942-07-20. A MEMBER OF 20 PLATOON 49TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION ENJOYING A LONG DRAUGHT OF COOL MILK FROM A COCONUT HE HAS OBTAINED BY CLIMBING A NEARBY TREE

PAPUA. 1942-08-18. GETTING READY FOR THE JAPS. VETERANS OF THE SYRIAN CAMPAIGN, MEN OF THE 2/14TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION SHARPEN THEIR BAYONETS ON A GRINDSTONE THEY HAD DISCOVERED IN A ..

PAPUA. 1942-08-18. ALLIED BOMBERS EXPLODING ON SEVEN MILE AERODROME NEAR PORT MORESBY AFTER BEING HIT IN A BOMBING RAID BY TWENTY-FOUR JAPANESE BOMBERS

MILNE BAY, PAPUA, 1942-09. MULLINS HARBOUR, MILNE BAY, WHERE THE JAPANESE ATTEMPTED TO LAND

MILNE BAY, PAPUA, 1942-09. RUGGED COUNTRY AT MILNE BAY WHERE JAPANESE FORCES LANDED FROM BARGES. IT CAN BE SEEN HOW THE MOUNTAINS RISE UP WITH THEIR THICK JUNGLE-CLAD SLOPES FROM THE SEA

PAPUA. 1942-08-19. LOADING DOUGLAS C47 PLANES WITH SUPPLIES FOR TROOPS IN THE FORWARD AREA. FOR TROOPS NEAR KOKODA, SUPPLIES ARE DROPPED FROM THE PLANES. THE GROUND TROOPS HAVE NICKNAMED THESE ..

MILNE BAY, PAPUA, 1942-09. PETROL DRUMS AND AN INVASION BARGE BLASTED BY THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE WHEN THE JAPANESE ATTEMPTED TO LAND AT MILNE BAY

PAPUA. 1942-09. MEN OF THE 2/14TH INFANTRY BATTALION RESTING UNDER A MAKESHIFT SHELTER NEAR THEIR POSITIONS ON A RIDGE OVERLOOKING THE VALLEY LEADING TO IORIBAIWA. HAROLD (DUTCHY) ATKINSON (LEFT) ..