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1943-01-22. PAPUA. ALLIED TROOPS ON THE MOVE FROM BUNA TO SANANANDA FORD A MUDDY RIVER CROSSING WITH THE AID OF NATIVE PAPUAN BEARERS

1943-01-25. PAPUA. NEARING THE END OF THE PAPUAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST JAPAN. NATIVE BOYS AND AMERICANS EXAMINE A CAPTURED 75MM. ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN, NEAR SANANANDA. AN AUSTRALIAN TAKES ADVANTAGE OF THE ..

Temporary treatment is given to walking wounded Australian, who has just come in from the front line. Corporal George Wilson, 2/12th Battalion gives the wounded soldier a drink

1943-01-22. PAPUA. DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION CAMERAMAN, AN OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER, ON THE TREK FROM BUNA TO SANANANDA, WITH NATIVE PAPUAN BEARERS CARRYING MOST OF HIS GEAR AS THEY FORD A MUDDY ..

1943-01-22. PAPUA. DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION CAMERAMEN, OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS BILL CARTY AND CLIFF BOTTOMLEY, IN THE SANANANDA AREA ERECTING THE FRAMEWORK FOR A TENT WITH THE AID OF NATIVE PAPUAN ..

1943-01-27. PAPUA. SANANANDA AREA. MUCH HAS BEEN SAID OF THE INVALUABLE HELP WHICH THE NATIVE BEARERS GIVE THE ALLIED TROOPS. THIS PICTURE SHOWS NATIVES CARRYING OUT A WOUNDED SOLDIER ON A ..

1943-01-27. PAPUA. SANANANDA AREA. ON SANANANDA BEACH AN AUSTRALIANS READY TO FIRE AT THE FIRST SIGN OF ANY JAPANESE IN THE DERELICT BARGE. IN THE BACKGROUND ARE FURTHER JAPANESE LANDING BARGES. ..

1943-01-26. NEW GUINEA. AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY MAN BRINGING IN JAP PRISONERS, SOMEWHERE INNEW GUINEA. (NEGATIVE BY BOTTOMLEY)

Nearing the end of the Papuan campaign against Japan. NX7 Brigadier George Frederick Wootten and Major James Alastair Yates 'Chips' Denniston, studying a map at Sanananda

1943-01-27. PAPUA. SANANANDA AREA. AN ARTILLERY ATTACK ON JAPANESE PILLBOXES IS PLANNED AT SANANANDA BY COLONEL H.M. LINDSTROM OF BILLINGS, MONTANA, LIEUTENANT J. LEWITZ OF SYDNEY AND CAPTAIN C. S. ..

1943-02-02. NEW GUINEA. "JAP-MAN, HE GONE TAUBADA." IS NOW THE PASSWORD ALONG THE JUNGLE TRACKS OF THE PAPUAN COAST NOW, THE NATIVES KNOW BY BUSH TELEGRAPH INSTINCT, OR "MISSION TALK ENGLISH" THAT ..

1943-01-27. PAPUA. SANANANDA AREA. A STACK OF RIFLES AND LIGHT MACHINE GUNS CAPTURED FROM THE JAPANESE AT SANANANDA