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Qantas Empire Airways' personnel, Mr I Little, purser, Mr G Chung, agent, and Mr L Purkiss, first officer, [Papua New Guinea]

Qantas Empire Airways' personnel, from left to right, Captain W Forgan-Smith, Mr B Heath, veteran pilot, and First Officer W Purkiss, Papua New Guinea

2nd NZEF IP soldiers of A Field Company Bridging Platoon constructing Salipal Pier on Nissan Island, Papua New Guinea

Noumea Harbour, New Caledonia

Noumea Harbour, New Caledonia

Vigors, Philip Doyne (Lieutenant), 1825-1903 : Private journal of a four months cruise through some of the South Seas Islands and New Zealand in HMS Havannah

Officials, awaiting the arrival of a DC-3, Bird of Paradise service, Qantas Empire Airways, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

New Zealand soldiers during unpacking operations after arrival at Nissan Island, Green Islands, Papua New Guinea, during World War II

Qantas Empire Airways, Bird of Paradise Service passengers, H E Clark, Mumeng, A Pinkerton, Buin and J Murphy, Bulolo, Papua New Guinea

World War II surgical station, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

Qantas Empire Airways, Bird of Paradise Service passengers, H E Clark, Mumeng, A Pinkerton, Buin, and J Murphy, Bulolo, Papua New Guinea

New Zealand Divisional Engineers preparing a scale model of Nissan Island, Papua New Guinea, during World War II