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Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1942-43. Station 13, an Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Battery (AASL Bty) site at Vabukori in the Port Moresby area belonging to the 73rd AASL Bty. The site is behind a number ..

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1942-1943. A view from the 67th Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Battery's command post on Paga Point. A camouflaged Sperry searchlight is in the foreground. The command post ..

Torokina, Bougainville. 1945-11. Group portrait of 2 Field Survey Company, No. 1 and No. 3 Sections, Detached. Left to right: back row: Sergeant (Sgt) R. Watson, Sapper (Spr) B. Bartley, Spr J. ..

Oro Bay, New Guinea. 1943. The 83rd Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Battery headquarters set among palm trees. Note the covered searchlight on the mobile base at the right

Rabaul, New Britain. 1945-09-15. Panoramic view taken from Government House site showing part of Rabaul township, Simpson Harbour and, on the other side of the Harbour, Malaguna Mission. This ..

Shokao Province, China. 1942. Portrait of Major-General Goro Mano, commander of 21MB North China and later Lieutenant-General commanding 41 Division, Imperial Japanese Army based at Utunomiya, near ..

London, England. C. 1944-11-15. A photographic exhibition called "Australia at War" was shown at Simpson's Piccadilly, from 1944-11-07 to 1944-11-23. The Honourable S. M. Bruce and Mrs Bruce study ..

Milne Bay, New Guinea. 1943. The 78th Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Battery's station

Berimu Village, New Guinea. 1945-08-05. NX89477 Corporal C.C.B. Warren, on the left, and NX16628 Private C.F. Cunningham of the 2/7th Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF, on a six day patrol into ..

Kelanoa Harbour (near Sio), New Guinea. c. 1944-01. Supply base for the 9th Division advance on Sio. Looking towards mountains, Beach Control tents on left

Lae, New Guinea. 1944. Men in the back of a truck at the camp at Butibum Road, Lae, of 2 Field Survey Company, No 1 Section, Detached. Left to right: unknown, Jack Fenton, Harry Jackson, Jeff ..

Torokina, Bougainville. c. 1945-07. At the base used by No. 1 and No. 3 Section, Detached, 2 Field Survey Company. Interior of the Drawing Offices, which are Nissen Huts taken over from the US ..