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1943-07-16. NEW GUINEA. CAPTAIN CLARRIE MARTIN M.L.A. FOR WAVERLEY AND ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR N.S.W. EXAMINES SPEARS USED BY NATIVES FOR FISHING. CAPT. MARTIN WAS THE FIRST CABINET MINISTER IN THE ..

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

1943-07-29. ALLIED CAPTURE OF MUBO. AMERICAN INFANTRYMEN INFILTRATING ALONG NASSAU BAY BEACH THE MORNING AFTER AMERICAN TROOPS LANDED AT NASSAU BAY. LATER THE AMERICANS JOINED UP WITH THE ..

1943-07-26. NEW GUINEA. FIVE HUNDRED MEALS AT A TIME AT A HOSPITAL PICNIC, OR UNLOADING BOATS OF WOUNDED ALLIED TROOPS, HAVE BEEN CATERED FOR BY THIS RED CROSS MOBILE CANTEEN. WITH THE SOLDIERS WHO ..

1943-07-31. ALLIED CAPTURE OF MUBO. AMERICAN ARTILLERY SHELLING JAPANESE POSITIONS NEAR MUBO. THE GUNS HAD TO BE MANHANDLED BY NATIVES AND ALLIED SOLDIERS OVER VERY ROUGH JUNGLE COUNTRY. (NEGATIVE ..

1943-07-31. ALLIED CAPTURE OF MUBO. AMERICAN ARTILLERY SHELLING JAPANESE POSITIONS NEAR MUBO. THE GUNS HAD TO BE MANHANDLED BY NATIVES AND ALLIED SOLDIERS OVER VERY ROUGH JUNGLE COUNTRY. THESE GUNS ..

1943-07-28. NEW GUINEA. WARRANT OFFICER MICHAEL CURTIN OF MIDDLE PARK, VICTORIAM GIVES A LIGHT TO SGT. FRANK MADDEN OF SOUTH BRISBANE, AS AUSTRALIAN TROOPS REST IN A DESERTED NATIVE VILLAGE IN THE ..

1943-07-31. ALLIED CAPTURE OF MUBO. IN A LITTLE CLEARED SPACE IN THE JUNGLE FIRST CLASS PTE. WILLIAM HATTAN, OF OREGON CITY, OREGON, COOKS HIS LUNCH DURING THE ALLIED ADVANCE ON MUBO, IN THE ..

1943-07-31. ALLIED CAPTURE OF MUBO. SIG. CLARENCE MOORE, OF KOGARAH, N.S.W., WHO LANDED WITH THE AMERICANS AT NASSAU BAY. HE IS ATTACHED TO AN AUSTRALIAN SIGNALLING UNIT WHICH PLAYED A PROMINENT ..

1943-08-03. THESE MEN, SOME SURVIVORS OF A CREW OF SIX OF A MITCHELL BOMBER WHICH CRASHED NEAR SALAMAUA, WERE 10 1/2 HOURS IN THE WATER BEFORE THEY REACHED LAND. LEFT TO RIGHT: SGT. WALTER MALONE, ..

1943-07-31. ALLIED CAPTURE OF MUBO. PTE. ARTHUR BELL, OF OLINDA, VIC., PTE. LES CHAPLIN, OF HAYFIELD, VIC., AND CAPT. CLARK SPURLOCK, OF PORTLAND, OREGON EXAMINING JAP EQUIPMENT TAKEN FROM A HUT ..

1943-08-03. NEW GUINEA. FOOD AND AMMUNITION FOR ALLIED TROOPS IN THE FORWARD AREA AT MUBO BEING DROPPED FROM A TRANSPORT PLANE. THE CONTAINERS ARE ATTACHED TO PARACHUTES. (NEGATIVE BY G. SHORT)