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NEW GUINEA. SATTELBERG AREA. 6 DECEMBER 1943. AT MANGROVE RIDGE ON THE RIGHT FLANK OF SATTELBERG, SUPPLIES ARE TAKEN FORWARD FOR FRONT LINE TROOPS

NEW GUINEA. RAMU VALLEY, FINISTERRE RANGE. 2 FEBRUARY 1944. SUPPLIES FOR AUSTRALIAN TROOPS COME FORWARD IN THE ORGORUNA AREA, WHERE AUSTRALIAN TROOPS THIS WEEK ADVANCED SEVERAL MILES ALONG THE ..

NEW GUINEA. 20 DECEMBER 1943. AUSTRALIAN TANKS ON THEIR WAY THROUGH TIMBERED COUNTRY TO ASSAULT JAPANESE POSITIONS

HEAVY RAIN MADE WORK MORE DIFFICULT TO KEEP MAPS AND WRITING MATERIAL DRY AT A FORWARD COMMAND POST DURING THE BATTLE IN WHICH INFANTRY UNITS OF 29TH/46TH BATTALION INFLICTED SEVERE CASUALTIES ON ..

1944-02-24. NEW GUINEA. SHOWN: F/LT T. CALDER OF BRISBANE, Q'LD, F/LT R. OVERHEU DFC, OF WEST BROOKTON, W.A., F/LT. J. NAPIER, OF ADELAIDE S.A

NEW GUINEA. 20 DECEMBER 1943. MEMBERS OF AN AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY UNIT ADVANCE THROUGH KUNAI GRASS TOWARDS JAPANESE STRONGPOSTS IN GUSIKA AREA

NEW GUINEA. RAMU VALLEY. 20 MARCH 1944. NEAR MENE HILL, LAST POINT AT WHICH CONTACT WAS MADE WITH THE JAPANESE, IN THE FINISTERRES, AN AUSTRALIAN PATROL FROM THE 2/6TH INDEPENDENT COMPANY (LATER ..

NEW GUINEA. 3 MARCH 1944. A CLOSE UP VIEW OF SERGEANT JACK MADDEN OF STANMORE, SYDNEY, NSW, OF THE METEOROLOGICAL SECTION WITH WIND VELOCITY INSTRUMENT TAKING READINGS AT AN ADVANCED AIRSTRIP. THE ..

NEW GUINEA. 15 FEBRUARY 1944. AUSTRALIANS PREPARE FOUNDATIONS FOR A 90 FOOT TRANSMITTING AERIAL FOR THE RADIO STATION, 9PA, WHICH, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMMISSION ..

NEW GUINEA. 6 MARCH 1944. THE SQUADRON LEADER H. C. PLENTY DFC (IN HELMET), WHO LED THE FORMATION OF BEAUFORT AIRCRAFT OF NO. 100 SQUADRON RAAF IN A SUCCESSFUL RAID AGAINST NEW BRITAIN, TAKES A ..

1944-03-22. NEW GUINEA. L/CPL. J.H. ADAMS (SHORTY) OF AN A.I.F. UNIT WHO ASSISTED IN MAKING THE DOCUMENTARY FILM "JUNGLE PATROL" PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE RAMU VALLEY AND FINISTERRE RANGE

H.M.A. HOSPITAL SHIP "GRANTALA" AT SUVA IN 1914-11. (DONATED BY COMMANDER G.F. LANGFORD, R.A.N.)