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1943-08-03. NEW GUINEA. MUBO CAMPAIGN. AUSTRALIANS, AMERICANS AND NATIVES PULLING PART OF AN AMERICAN ARTILLERY PIECE UP A GRADE OF NEARLY ONE IN ONE IN JUNGLE COUNTRY TO BOMBARD JAP POSITIONS NEAR ..

1943-08-03. NEW GUINEA. MUBO CAMPAIGN. AMERICAN TROOPS RESTING DURING THE ARDUOUS TASK OF DRAGGING PARTS OF AMERICAN ARTILLERY PIECES OVER A MOUNTAIN 2747 FEET HIGH TO BOMBARD JAP POSITIONS NEAR ..

1943-08-03. NEW GUINEA. VX13245 PRIVATE. HERBERT GEORGE ESCREET, OF CARRAJUNG, VIC, RESTING DURING A HALT ON A TRACK IN THE MUBO AREA. (NEGATIVE BY G. SHORT)

1943-08-03. ALLIED CAPTURE OF MUBO. SGT. TONI PORTER, OF SANTA CLARE, CALIFORNIA, RESTING WHILE ON HIS WAY TO THE FRONT LINE BETWEEN NASSAU BAY AND MUBO. AMERICAN AND AUSTRALIAN TROOPS DROVE THE ..

1943-08-09. NEW GUINEA. ALLIED SOLDIERS ON THEIR WAY TO THE FIGHTING NEAR MUBO STOP FOR A CUP OF TEA ON THE ROUGH JUNGLE TRACK AT MAT MAT. (NEGATIVE BY G. SHORT)

NEW GUINEA. PTE. ALLAN MCLEOD, OF ASCOT VALE, VIC., AND SIG. BILL BULLOCK OF BRUNSWICK, VIC., CLEARING A TRACK TO THEIR HUT BUILT ON A HILL SIDE NEAR MUBO, ON A SLOPE OF ONE IN ONE. THIS JUNGLE ..

1943-08-09. NEW GUINEA. AS THE BATTLE FOR MOUNT TAMBU NEAR SALAMAUA GOES ON AUSTRALIAN VETERANS REALISE THEY HAVE NEVER FOUGHT A NASTIER COMBINATION THAN THE JUNGLE AND THE JAPANESE. HERE ARE ..

1943-08-09. NEW GUINEA. AS THE BATTLE FOR MOUNT TAMBU NEAR SALAMAUA GOES ON AUSTRALIAN VETERANS REALISE THEY HAVE NEVER FOUGHT A NASTIER COMBINATION THAN THE JUNGLE AND THE JAPANESE. HERE ARE PTE. ..

1943-08-09. NEW GUINEA. USING A SHATTERED TREE AS COVER PTE. A.J. WATT, OF NORTHCOTE, VIC., IS READY TO OPEN FIRE WITH HIS BREN GUN NEAR OBSERVATORY HILL. THE TREE WAS SHATTERED IN AN AERIAL BLITZ ..

1943-08-10. NEW GUINEA. MOUNT TAMBU FIGHTING. PTE. ROY STURNER, OF REDFERN, N.S.W. WHO WAS WOUNDED IN THE FIGHTING ON MOUNT TAMBU CHATS WITH SGT. HARRY HILL, OF ROSEBERG, OREGON, AND 1ST CLASS PTE. ..

1943-08-10. NEW GUINEA. MOUNT TAMBU FIGHTING. SGT. ERNIE SPENCER, OF BRUNSWICK, VIC., STAFF SERGEANT IVAN SMITH, OF HAMILTON, VIC., AND CPL. LAURIE BARKER, OF MANLY, N.S.W., COOKING A MEAL AT THE ..

1943-08-10. NEW GUINEA. MOUNT TAMBU FIGHTING. WITHIN SOUND OF RIFLE, ARTILLERY AND MORTAR FIRE, FATHER THEO O'KEEFE, OF ST PATRICK'S CHURCH, CAMPERDOWN, VIC., HOLDS MASS ALONGSIDE A MOUNTAIN STREAM ..