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Oro Bay, New Guinea. 1943. The 83rd Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Battery's station. Buildings with walls of sandbags and wood or grass roofs are visible amongst the trees

EMIRAU ISLAND. THE CAPTAIN OF THE NORWEGIAN MERCHANT VESSEL VINNI WITH CAPTAIN UPTON OF THE BRITISH VESSEL RANGITANE, BOTH OF WHOSE SHIPS WERE SUNK BY GERMAN RAIDERS KOMET AND ORION IN THE PACIFIC, ..

PAPUA. PORT MORESBY. PAPUAN INFANTRY. (NEGATIVE BY R. PEARSE)

Survivors, passengers and crews from the British vessel Rangitane were rescued by the Australian steamer Nellore from the small Island of Emirau, in the Bismarck Archipelago, where they were landed ..

Survivors, passengers and crews from the British vessel Rangitane were rescued by the Australian steamer Nellore from the small Island of Emirau, just south of the Equator, where they were landed ..

Survivors, passengers and crew from the British vessels Rangitane, Komata, Triaster, Triadic, Triona and Holmwood and the Norwegian vessel Vinni, were rescued by the Australian steamer Nellore, ..

Dreger Harbour, New Guinea. 1943-12-05. The Commanding Officer of the 870th United States Aviation Engineer Battalion, Colonel Marsh, and some of his officers inspecting the new aircraft landing ..

Apoka Valley, Papua. c. 1942-03. The Regimental Band, 135th Medical Regiment, U.S. Army, playing in a tent in the grounds of the Port Moresby Evacuation Hospital. In 1942-05 the Regimental Band was ..

Dumpu, New Guinea. 1943-12-19. A native carrying a bag of Christmas parcels for the soldiers, which has just been unloaded from an aircraft at the Dumpu airstrip in the Ramu Valley area

Apoka Valley, Papua. 1943-02. A Jeep powered sawmill cutting timber for the 750-bed Port Moresby Evacuation Hospital erected on the site by the 135th Medical Regiment, U.S. Army. Construction began ..

Apoka Valley, Papua. c. 1942-03. The Regimental Band, 135th Medical Regiment, U.S. Army, playing in the grounds of the Port Moresby Evacuation Hospital. In 1942-05 the Regimental Band was posted to ..

Cape Hoskins, New Britain. 1944-10-09. Local natives unloading an United States barge delivering stores and equipment to the 36th Infantry Battalion, Australian Military Forces. A wrecked Japanese ..