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1943-04-14. NEW GUINEA. APANINI, ONE OF THE VERY FEW ALBINOS IN NEW GUINEA. HE IS VERY FAIR WITH FRECKLES AND GOLDEN BLONDE CURLY HAIR. WITH HIM IS A NATIVE POLICE BOY. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)

1943-04-13. NEW GUINEA. FILM STAR JOE E. BROWN ENTERTAINS AUSTRALIAN AND AMERICAN TROOPS. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)

MILNE BAY, NEW GUINEA, 1943-04-14. THE GRAVE OF SQUADRON LEADER P.B. TURNBULL, DFC. IN THE MILNE BAY WAR CEMETERY. SQUADRON LEADER TURNBULL, THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF NO 76 SQUADRON, WAS KILLED ..

1943-04-14. NEW GUINEA. MILNE BAY. DECORATIONS FOR FUZZY-WUZZIES. NEARLY THREE THOUSAND NATIVES HELD A FEAST AT MILNE BAY AFTER SIX OF THEIR MEMBERS RECEIVED MEDALS FOR LOYAL SERVICE DURING THE ..

1943-04-14. NEW GUINEA. WAR CEMETERY AT MILNE BAY. GRAVE OF CORPORAL J.A. FRENCH, V.C. CORPORAL FRENCH WON THE FIRST V.C. IN THE NEW GUINEA CAMPAIGN. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)

1943-04-14. NEW GUINEA. MOSQUITO CONTROL. FIVE HUNDRED ACRES OF WATER-LOGGED GROUND WILL BE DRAINED BY THIS CHANNEL. FIFTY NATIVE BOYS WILL COMPLETE THE WORK IN SIX WEEKS. IN 1942-12, MALARIA ..

1943-04-16. NEW GUINEA. MILNE BAY. BEAUFORT BOMBERS PRACTICE AT MILNE BAY. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)

1943-04-16. NEW GUINEA. MILNE BAY, PHOTOGRAPHED FROM A BOMBER. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)

1943-05-07. NEW GUINEA. MILNE BAY. AN ALLIED VESSEL HIT DURING THE 1943-04-14, JAPANESE RAID ON MILNE BAY. PICTURE SHOWS SOME OF THE CREW. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)

1943-05-07. NEW GUINEA. MILNE BAY. AN ALLIED VESSEL WAS HIT DURING THE 1943-04-14, JAPANESE RAID ON MILNE BAY. PICTURE SHOWS A HOLE IN THE SIDE OF THE VESSEL. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)

1943-03-03. THE G.O.C. NEW GUINEA FORCE ADDRESSING ONE OF THE NATIVE CONSTABLES AFTER HAVING LR PRESENTED HIM WITH A LARGE SILVER MEDAL FOR LOYAL SERVICE, AND THANKING HIM FOR HIS WORK. ON ONE SIDE ..

1943-03-10. NEW GUINEA. QUICK CONCENTRATION OF MEN AND GUNS BY AIR WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEFEAT OF THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON WAU. THIS PHOTO SHOWS TRANSPORT PLANES FLYING ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS ..