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Port Moresby, Papua. 1940-09-12. Some of the cast of the amateur Sunny Side Up Company patriotic concert party, providing entertainment in aid of the Red Cross, on stage following a performance at ..

New Guinea. 1942-10-12. Informal portrait of US Army General Douglas MacArthur, cigar in mouth, during a visit to Australian troops operating in forward areas in New Guinea

Sanananda, New Guinea. 1943-05. A number of wrecked beached Japanese landing barges remaining from an attempted invasion

Port Moresby, Papua. c. 1914. Children of the cast of a patriotic concert entertainment assembled on stage following a performance at the Literary Institute Hall. Note the flags bearing the word ..

Oro Bay, New Guinea. 1943-07. The road entrance to the Main Dressing Station, 10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps

Oro Bay, New Guinea. 1943-05. VX104013 Major I. A. Wilson (right) at a microscope in the pathology tent at the Main Dressing Station, 10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps

Probably New Guinea. c.1943. Starboard side view of the stores carrier and depot ship HMAS Koopa

New Guinea. C. 1945. Starboard side view of HMAS Warramunga at sea proceeding at full steam ahead

Oro Bay, New Guinea. 1943-04. Tents of the Main Dressing Station, 10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps

Oro Bay, New Guinea. 1943-04. A cook working in the kitchem at the 10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps

Oro Bay, New Guinea. 1943-05. A jeep bogged in mud to its axles following heavy rain, near the 10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps

1943-06-18. NEW GUINEA. THE NATIVE VILLAGE OF HANAUBADA, PORT MORESBY AFTER IT HAD BEEN SWEPT BY FIRE, WHICH IT IS BELIEVED WAS ACCIDENTAL. THIS WAS THE BIGGEST VILLAGE OF "SALTWATER" NATIVES IN ..