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PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1942-07-20. AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS LAYING BARBEDWIRE ENTANGLEMENTS THROUGH THE "STILTS" OF A NATIVE VILLAGE. COASTAL NATIVES OF NEW GUINEA BUILD VILLAGES THIS WAY BECAUSE OF AN ..

PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1942-07-20. AN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER ADMIRES HIS SOUVENIR OF NEW GUINEA, A MODEL LAKATOI, OR NATIVE SAILING CRAFT

PARI BEACH, PAPUA. 1942-07-20. A LITTLE EXERTION IS THE ONLY PRICE OF A COCONUT FOR THE AUSTRALIAN TROOPS IN NEW GUINEA. HERE A MEMBER OF THE 49TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION SEEN CLIMBING A TREE ..

An outdoors group portrait of the Commanding Officer and officers of the 2nd Australian Field Brigade Headquarters. Left to right, back row: Interpreter Gregoire, wearing a Military Medal ribbon; ..

PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1942-07-20. PUNTING THEIR "LAKATOI", (NATIVE NAME FOR A SAILING CRAFT) THESE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS PUSH OUT THROUGH THE SHALLOWS ON A FISHING EXCURSION. THE NATIVE SAILING CRAFT ..

An outdoors group portrait of the Commanding Officer, Adjutant, and members of the Headquarters Details of the 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade. Identified are; Interpreter Gregoire, wearing ..

PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1942-07-20. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS RUSHING INTO THE SHALLOWS FOR A REFRESHING PLUNGE AFTER A DAY'S WORK

PARI BEACH, PAPUA. 1942-07-20. A LITTLE EXERTION IS THE ONLY PRICE OF A COCONUT FOR THE AUSTRALIAN TROOPS IN NEW GUINEA. IN THIS PICTURE TWO AUSSIES HAVE REACHED THE TOP OF THE TREE AND ARE ABOUT ..

PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-07-20. AN AIRA- COBRA FIGHTER PLANE OF AN AMERICAN SQUADRON IN FLIGHT ON TAKE OFF TO INTERCEPT JAPANESE BOMBERS WHEN THE ALARM SOUNDS AT A JUNGLE DROME

PARI BEACH, PAPUA. 1942-07-20. PERSONNEL OF 20 PLATOON, 49TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION ENJOYING THE COOL MILK OF COCONUTS, THEY HAVE OBTAINED BY CLIMBING A NEARBY COCONUT TREE

PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-07-20. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS DOING THEIR DOMESTIC CHORES NEAR THEIR TENT IN THE NEW GUINEA JUNGLE

PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-07-20. HASTILY CONSTRUCTED ROADS THROUGH MOUNTAINOUS AREAS IN NEW GUINEA ARE MOSTLY ONLY SINGLE TRACK WIDTH. TO ENSURE THAT VEHICLES WILL NOT MEET HEAD ON, A TELEPHONE HAS ..