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1943-07-26. NEW GUINEA. THE FINISH OF A THREE-LEGGED RACE AT A SPORTS MEETING ORGANISED IN NEW GUINEA BY AN AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY UNIT. SGT. ERNEST KEENE, OF MORRESET, N.S.W. WITH SISTER BARBARA ..

1943-07-16. NEW GUINEA. MEMBERS OF AN AUSTRALIAN BOSTON BOMBER UNIT DISCUSS THEIR BOMBING ATTACK ON MUBO - THE GREATEST SINGLE RAID YET MADE ON A LAND TARGET IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. OVER 50 ..

1943-07-26. NEW GUINEA. MRS VERA MORTON, THE LAST WOMAN TO BE EVACUATED FROM NEW GUINEA, IS NOW BACK AGAIN AS A RED CROSS WORKER. HERE SHE IS WITH SOME OF THE LADS SHE HAS TAUGHT THE ART OF MAKING ..

1943-07-29. ALLIED CAPTURE OF MUBO. AMERICAN REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE TROOPS WHO, AFTER HAVING LANDED AT NASSAU BAY. JOINED FORCES WITH THE AUSTRALIANS AND CAPTURED MUBO. THIS PHOTO SHOWS THE ..

Allied capture of Mubo. Private (Pte) Dennis Buzza of Brisbane, Qld, places a Japanese officer's identification emblem on his grave after the officer had been killed in a skirmish on Nassau Bay ..

1943-07-29. ALLIED CAPTURE OF MUBO. AMERICAN REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE TROOPS WHO, AFTER HAVING LANDED AT NASSAU BAY, JOINED FORCES WITH THE AUSTRALIANS AND CAPTURED MUBO. THIS PHOTO SHOWS THE ..

1943-07-26. NEW GUINEA. HUMOROUS AND TOPICAL SKETCHES DRAWN BY SGT. OWEN BOND OF STRATHFIELD, N.S.W. WERE AWARDED AS PRIZES AT A SPORTS MEETING ORGANISED BY AN AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY UNIT IN NEW ..

1943-07-28. NEW GUINEA. AN AUSTRALIAN PATROL PICKS ITS WAY ALONG THE ROCKS AT NASSAU BAY. AUSTRALIANS AND AMERICANS CLEARED THE BAY OF THE JAPS AND FINALLY DROVE THE ENEMY OUT OF MUBO TO THE NORTH ..

1943-07-31. ALLIED CAPTURE OF MUBO. A TYPICAL AMERICAN INFANTRYMAN, FIRST CLASS PTE. ANDREW ARNEY, OF WOODBURN, OREGON, ON PATROL IN A FORWARD AREA NEAR MUBO. AUSTRALIANS AND AMERICANS ADVANCED ..

1943-07-31. ALLIED CAPTURE OF MUBO. A TYPICAL AMERICAN INFANTRYMAN, PTE. GEORGE BURTON, OF SOUTH RIVER, NEW JERSEY, CLEANING HIS RIFLE NEAR MUBO. (NEGATIVE BY G. SHORT)

1943-07-31. ALLIED CAPTURE OF MUBO. AMERICAN INFANTRY CROSSING A CREEK NEAR NASSAU BAY, EN ROUTE TO THE FRONT LINE. FROM NASSAU BAY THE AMERICANS AND AUSTRALIANS WENT FORWARD TO CAPTURE MUBO. ..

1943-07-31. ALLIED CAPTURE OF MUBO. AN AMERICAN OUTPOST AT NASSAU BAY. LEFT TO RIGHT: PTE. HARRY EMMACK, OF LONG BEACH, CAL. FIRST CLASS PTE. FLOYD CHAMBERS OF LONG BEACH, FIRST CLASS PTE. HOWARD ..