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Milne Bay, Papua. 1943. Japanese invasion barge destroyed by fighter aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force during the Japanese landing in 1942-08

Milne Bay, Papua. c. 1943. Australian corvette HMAS Lithgow

Los Negros Island, Admiralty Group. c. 1944. HMAS Australia, on the left, with United States cruiser USS Canberra on the right. USS Canberra had formerly been USS Pittsburgh but was renamed USS ..

Milne Bay, Papua. c. 1943. Australian corvette HMAS Gympie

Milne Bay, Papua. 1943. Japanese invasion barges destroyed by fighter aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force during the Japanese landing in 1942-08

Los Negros Island, Admiralty Group. c. 1944. An United States Naval Task Force standing off the island

Los Negros Island, Admiralty Group. c. 1944. Royal Australian Navy cruiser HMAS Australia anchored off the island

Papua-New Guinea, c. 1943. Led by an Australian soldier (in the background), a line of native stretcher-bearers (sometimes called fuzzy wuzzy angels) and other helpers threads its way down a ..

Milne Bay, Papua. c. 1943. A photograph taken from HMAS Broome showing fuel being transferred from a grounded tanker

Milne Bay, Papua, 1944-03. General view of the base occupied by the Headquarters (HQ) of RAAF Northern Command. A road winds between palm-roofed huts which serve variously as administrative and ..

Papua, c. 1943. Members of the Papuan Infantry Battalion on parade with their rifles in a rural area

Goodenough Island, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua, 1944-03-07. RAAF aircraft undergoing repairs at the large repair hangar operated by No. 26 Repair and Salvage Unit RAAF. The aircraft in the ..