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PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA,1943-10-25. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL BASE HMAS BASILISK. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

WAU, NEW GUINEA 1943. A GROUP OF NATIVES ON THE OCCASION OF PRESENTATION OF PRIZES TO NATIVE TROOPS BY LT-GEN SIR IVEN MACKAY. (DONATED BY LADY MACKAY)

BATHURST CLASS MINESWEEPER/CORVETTE HMAS SHEPPARTON. SHEPPARTON WAS COMMISSIONED ON 1 FEBRUARY 1943 AND SPENT HER WARTIME SERVICE IN AUSTRALIAN AND NEW GUINEA WATERS. AFTER SOME POST WAR SURVEY ..

BATHURST CLASS MINESWEEPER/CORVETTE HMAS HORSHAM. COMMISSIONED ON 18TH NOVEMBER 1942 HORSHAM SERVED IN SOUTHWESTERN AUSTRALIA AND NEW GUINEA WATERS. AFTER THE WAR SHE PAID OFF AND IN AUGUST 1958 ..

CAPE WARD HUNT, NEW GUINEA, 1943. LIGHT WEIGHT AIR WARNING RADAR MK I. UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Bathurst class minesweeper/corvette HMAS Bunbury. Bunbury was completed on 14 February 1943 and served in Australian, New Guinea and adjacent waters. After her service she paid off and in March ..

UNITED STATES TROOPS OF THE 32ND UNITED STATES DIVISION DRAGGING THE "SWAMP RAT", A DOUGLAS C47 AIRCRAFT OF THE UNITED STATES 5TH AIR FORCE, OUT OF THE SWAMPY GROUND AT THE END OF THE NEW AIRSTRIP

NADZAB- LAE, NEW GUINEA, 1954-08. A PLAQUE ERECTED ON THE TRACK BETWEEN NADZAB AND LAE BY THE AUSTRALIAN BATTLEFIELDS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE UNDER A SCHEME INITIATED BY THE AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES ..

WAU, NEW GUINEA. 1942-07. NEAR CRYSTAL CREEK. LEFT TO RIGHT: LIEUTENANT COLONEL P. D. S. STARR, BRIGADIER M. J. MOTEN, COMD 17 BRIGADE, LIEUTENANT-GENERAL I. G. MACKAY. (DONATED BY LADY MACKAY)

A SPOTTING PLANE DIRECTS A RESCUE BOAT TO THE SCENE OF AN AIRCRAFT CRASH ON THE LALOKI RIVER, 1943-12. DRAWN BY WAR ARTIST ROY HODGKINSON AND PUBLISHED IN AUSTRALIA IN THE WAR OF 1939-45, MEDICAL, ..

ADMIRALTY ISLANDS 1955. NEW RECRUITS OF THE PNG DIVISION OF THE RAN BEING DRILLED ON THE PARADE GROUND AT THE RAN SHORE BASE, HMAS TARANGAU. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL, CANBERRA, ACT 1976-03-04. MR MICHAEL SOMARE, PRIME MINISTER OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA, LOOKING AT THE SCULPTURE IN BRONZE, FIGHTER PILOT BY R.B. EWERS, ON THE OCCASION OF HIS ..