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GOODENOUGH ISLAND, NEW GUINEA. 1944-01-01. ALLIED INTELLIGENCE BUREAU (AIB) PERSONNEL AT AIB HEADQUARTERS AT COLOURS. INCLUDED IN THE PHOTOGRAPH ARE LIEUTENANTS (SPECIAL BRANCH) C. W. DUKE-YONGE ..

Informal group portrait of Australian naval officers standing outside the naval store office. Identified left to right: unidentified; Lieutenant (Lt) Ritchie; Lt Frank Edward Grace; Lt Samuel ..

ALEXISHAFEN, PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 1944-09. THE WRECKAGE OF A JAPANESE NAKAJIMA KI-49 DONRYU (HELEN) BOMBER AT THE AIRSTRIP. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

RABAUL, NEW BRITAIN. C.1945. A CONCRETE BUNKER FOR TORPEDO STOWAGE CONSTRUCTED IN A CAVE BY THE JAPANESE. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

LAE, NEW GUINEA. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE ALLIED AERIAL BOMBARDMENT. A COMBAT PHOTOGRAPHY UNIT IS AT WORK IN THE SMOKING RUINS. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

1942-12-13. TROOPS FROM THE 2/9TH BATTALION AIF ON THE QUARTERDECK OF THE CORVETTE HMAS BROOME, EN ROUTE FROM MILNE BAY TO THE BUNA AREA. NOTE THE KITE/OTTERS AND FLOATS OF THE OROPESA MINESWEEPING ..

MILNE BAY, NEW GUINEA. 1943-03. THE FORMER HAWKESBURY RIVER FERRY GEORGE PEAT (LEFT), REQUISITIONED FOR SERVICE WITH THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY, ALONGSIDE LYLES PIER. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

1942-12-13. TROOPS FROM THE 2/9TH BATTALION AIF AMIDSHIPS BY THE FUNNEL OF THE CORVETTE HMAS BROOME, EN ROUTE FROM MILNE BAY TO THE BUNA AREA. ROPE LADDERS ARE BEING RIGGED FOR ACCESS TO THE SHIP'S ..

Portrait of Simogun Pita, a New Guinea native coastwatcher, armed with a M1 Carbine. In the 1960's he served as Assistant Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Police in the Territory of Papua and New ..

MADANG, NEW GUINEA. 1944. AVIATION SPIRIT ABANDONED BY JAPANESE AT THE AIRSTRIP BEING USED TO REFUEL HMA MOTOR LAUNCH ML424. NOTE THE DEPTH CHARGE LASHED TO THE RACK AT LEFT. (NAVAL HISTORICAL ..

NEW GUINEA. A WRECKED JAPANESE PATROL BOAT AT THE MOUTH OF THE KAPUGARA RIVER. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

EMIRAU, ST MATTHIAS GROUP. 1944-03-20. SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT BEING BROUGHT ASHORE FROM LANDING CRAFT TO SUPPORT THE US MARINE LANDING FORCE. THE VEHICLES NEAREST THE CAMERA ARE LANDING VEHICLE ..