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1943-07-07. NEW GUINEA. PACIFIC OFFENSIVE. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR WHO IS COMMAND OF THE ALLIED OFFENSIVES IN NEW GUINEA AND THE SOLOMONS, PHOTOGRAPHED BESIDE HIS PLANE IN NEW GUINEA. WITH HIM IS ..

Wau-Mubo Area, on the Mubo track, members of a 24th Battalion patrol stop for a rest. Identified, left to right: VX151689 Private (Pte) Ian Patterson, Vic; V281140 Pte Frank Geoffrey Horsey, of ..

Wau-Mubo Area, along the Mubo Track members of a mortar section. Identified, left to right: Private (Pte) K McLeod, of Mallacoota, Vic; VX115546 Pte Neil McColl Gilmour, 24th Battalion, of Mont ..

1943-06-29. NEW GUINEA. WAU-MUBO AREA. TRANSPORT PLANES UNLOADING AT AN ADVANCED LANDING GROUND. (NEGATIVE BY G. SHORT)

1943-07-12. AMERICAN ADVANCE INTO TROBRIAND ISLANDS. THESE ARE THE FIRST PICTURES OF THE AMERICAN ADVANCE INTO KIRIWINA AND WOODLARK ISLANDS, AND SHOW PART OF A LONG LINE OF SMALL SHIPS ON THEIR ..

1943-07-09. NEW GUINEA. WAU-MUBO AREA. A DENTAL CLINIC POST IN A FORWARD AREA ALONG THE MUBO TRACK. USING THE WING OF A JAPANESE AIRCRAFT FOR A WORK BENCH, CORPORAL R. GOODALL, OF HOMEBUSH, N.S.W. ..

1943-07-12. AMERICAN ADVANCE INTO TROBRIAND ISLANDS. ONE OF THE LANDING BARGES USED BY THE AMERICANS IN THEIR LANDING ON KIRIWINA ISLAND. OF MOST UNUSUAL APPEARANCE, THESE LANDING BARGES ARE KNOWN ..

Wau-Mubo area. A patrol in a forward area along the Mubo track. SX16303 Private (Pte) Jack Stevens, 2/9th Area Regiment, of Murray Bridge, SA; SX13340 Pte Edward Lishmund, 2/6th Battalion, of North ..

1943-07-12. AMERICAN ADVANCE INTO TROBRIAND ISLANDS. THESE ARE THE FIRST PICTURES OF THE AMERICAN ADVANCE INTO KIRIWINA AND WOODLARK ISLANDS, AND SHOW PART OF A LONG LINE OF SMALL SHIPS ON THEIR ..

1943-07-12. AMERICANS ADVANCE INTO TROBRIAND ISLANDS. THROUGH BINOCULARS AN AMERICAN OFFICER WATCHES THE PROGRESS OF THE CONVOY. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)

1943-07-14. NEW GUINEA. WAU-MUBO AREA. PATIENTS AT A FORWARD DRESSING STATION RECEIVE RED CROSS COMFORTS. (NEGATIVE BY G. SHORT)

1943-07-16. NEW GUINEA. MEMBER OF AN AUSTRALIAN BOSTON BOMBER CREW FLYING OFFICER JACK MCMASTER OF HAMILTON, QUEENSLAND. (NEGATIVE BY G. SHORT)