Explore items from Melanesia

1943-07-08. NEW GUINEA. WAU-MUBO AREA. AN AUSTRALIAN PATROL MOVES OUT ALONG THE MUBO TRACK IN A FORWARD AREA. (NEGATIVE BY G. SHORT)

1943-07-12. AMERICAN ADVANCE INTO TROBRIAND ISLANDS. THE VOYAGE WHICH ENDED THE LONG PERIOD OF THE ALLIED HOLDING WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. THESE PHOTOS ARE THE FIRST OF THE AMERICAN ADVANCE, ..

Wau-Mubo Area. A member of a patrol along the Mubo track, VX106307 Sergeant Thomas Stanley Burton, 24th Battalion, of Mitcham, Vic, wades through a creek. (Negative by G Short)

1943-07-09. NEW GUINEA. WAU-MUBO AREA. NEAR THE MUBO TRACK IS THE WRECKAGE OF A TRANSPORT PLANE. THE PLANE CRASHED WHILE TRANSPORTING FOOD AND AMMUNITION TO FORWARD AREAS. SUPPLIES ARE DROPPED TO ..

1943-07-12. AMERICAN ADVANCE INTO TROBRIAND ISLANDS. A SAILOR WATCHES FOR JAPANESE AIRCRAFT WHILST THE AMERICAN TROOPS WERE BEING TAKEN TO KIRIWINA ISLAND. NO ATTACKS BY AIR OR SEA WERE MADE ON THE ..

Wau-Mubo Area, along the Mubo - two members of a patrol, possibly the 2/6th Battalion. Identified, left to right: VX10105 Private (Pte) Edward Witton, of Sunbury, Vic, and Pte J Middleton, of ..

Wau-Mubo Area. Near the Mubo track is the wreckage of transport aircraft. The aircraft chrashed while transporting food and ammunition to forward areas. Supplies are dropped to troops. (Negative by ..

1943-07-09. NEW GUINEA. WAU-MUBO AREA. THIS TRANSPORT CARRIES STORES TO MEN AT FORWARD AREAS OVER SOME OF THE ROUGHEST COUNTRY IN NEW GUINEA. PICTURE SHOWS A GENERAL VIEW OF A PACK TEAM AS IT SETS ..

1943-07-12. AMERICANS ADVANCE INTO TROBRIAND ISLANDS. NORTHWARD BOUND AND THE END OF THE LONG HOLDING WAR BY THE ALLIES IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, SMALL AMERICANS SHIPS SAILING TOWARDS KIRIWINA ..

1943-07-12. AMERICAN ADVANCE INTO TROBRIAND ISLANDS. THIS PICTURE IS ONE OF THE FIRST OF THE AMERICAN ADVANCE AND SHOWS TWO SHIPS OF THE CONVOY SAILING NORTHWARD UNDER SULLEN SKIES. (NEGATIVE BY N. ..

1943-07-16. NEW GUINEA. SOME OF THE PILOTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE LARGEST BOMBING RAID ON A LAND TARGET IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA. LEFT TO RIGHT. F/O AUSTIN SKINNER, OF WONTHAGGI, VIC., F/LT. ..

1943-07-23. NEW GUINEA. WAU-MUBO AREA. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS MOVE ON TO HARRY RETREATING JAPS. (NEGATIVE BY G. SHORT)