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1943-09-15. PARATROOPS LAND AT NADZAB. AUSTRALIAN OFFICERS WHO WITH OTHER AUSTRALIAN AIRBORNE ARTILLERY LANDED IN THE MARKHAM VALLEY, AND WITH AMERICAN PARATROOPS TRAPPED THE REMNANTS OF THE FOUR ..

1943-09-15. PARATROOPS LAND AT NADZAB. THREE SMILING AMERICAN PARATROOPERS, CARRYING FULL EQUIPMENT READY TO JOIN ONE OF THE NUMEROUS PLANES WHICH FLEW THEM AND OTHER AMERICAN PARATROOPERS AND ..

1943-09-15. NEW GUINEA. GOODVIEW JUNCTION. PTE. HARRY MCLENNAN, OF DIMBOOLA, VIC., WITH A JAPANESE BAYONET WHICH HE FILED DOWN FOR USE AS A SHEATH KNIFE. (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK)

1943-09-15. ALLIED PARATROOPS INVADE THE MARKHAM VALLEY. GENERAL MACARTHUR WATCHES AN AMERICAN PARATROOPER HAVE HIS EQUIPMENT ADJUSTED BEFORE JOINING ONE OF THE GIANT TRANSPORT PLANES WHICH TOOK ..

1943-09-15. LAE SALAMAUA ISOLATED. HEAVILY LADEN TRUCKS, JEEPS AND, IN FOREGROUND, AN ARTILLERY TRACTOR AND GUN MOVE FORWARD IN THE WAKE OF THE AUSTRALIANS WHO HAD MOVED INLAND AFTER HAVING LANDED ..

1943-09-15. NEW GUINEA. GOODVIEW JUNCTION. PTE. HARRY PARSONS OF PORT MELBOURNE, VIC., WHO WAS CUT OFF FROM HIS MATES WHILE ON PATROL AT KOMIATUM. BEFORE PARSONS SCRAMBLED TO SAFETY THE JAPANESE ..

1943-09-20. NEW GUINEA. BUSO RIVER, - LAE AREA. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS OPEN UP TINS OF BULLY BEEF. (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK)

1943-09-20. NEW GUINEA. BUSO RIVER - LAE AREA. NATIVES WHO ESCAPED FROM LAE ARRIVE AT ALUKIE VILLAGE. THE NATIVES HAD NOT EATEN FOR THREE DAYS. (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK)

1943-09-20. NEW GUINEA. SALAMUA AREA. DOWN STEEP BUOISI RIDGE, FUZZY-WUZZIES CARRY A WOUNDED AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER. PRACTICALLY THE WHOLE OF THE TRACK IS SLIPPERY RED MUD. IT TAKES SIX HOURS TO CLIMB ..

1943-09-20. NEW GUINEA. SALAMUA AREA. 25 POUNDER GUN IN ACTION AT NIGHT TIME. (NEGATIVE BY W. CARTY)

NEW GUINEA. 1943-08-10. MOUNT TAMBU FIGHTING. PTE. WALTER WHITE, OF WILLIAMSTOWN, VICTORIA, WHO was CUT OFF BY THE JAPANESE FOR SEVEN DAYS, MADE HIS WAY BACK TO THE AUSTRALIAN LINES. WHITE LIVED ON ..

1943-08-10. NEW GUINEA. MOUNT TAMBU FIGHTING. A FUZZY WUZZY ASSISTS PTE. JERRY CRONIN, OF KATANNING, W.A. TO CROSS A CREEK AFTER CRONIN HAD BEEN WOUNDED IN A CLASH AGAINST THE JAPANESE