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Kokoda Track, Papua. 1942. Informal portrait of NX239 Captain Bruce Brock and an indigenous (native) boy, Effogi, outside a thatched hut. (Original housed in AWM Archive Store)

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1943. Neville John Young leaning on a post outside his canvas tent sleeping quarters at RAAF Bomb Disposal Post No. 3. (Donor M Young)

Port Moresby, Papua. 1941-12. A patient on the operating table in No. 5 Casualty Clearing Station. The soldier had been bayoneted during combat on the Kokoda Track. An anaesthetist, nursing sister ..

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1943. Members of a RAAF Bomb Disposal Unit, Lazarini (left) and Neville John Young stand with a 2000lb United States bomb amidst the rubble and ruin left after a fire in ..

AERIAL VIEW OF ORIGINAL KARRANA BASE SHOWING VAILALA RIVER AND NARRAWA CREEK

Kokoda Trail, Papua. 1942. NX239 Lieutenant Bruce Brock (left) and another soldier stand beside a Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) banner outside a thatched hut. The hut was near the ..

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1943. Scarred and burnt out earth and trees, possibly the result of a fire in a United States bomb dump. A RAAF Bomb Disposal Unit helped to extinguish the blaze and to ..

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1943. Members of a RAAF Bomb Disposal Unit working at an unexploded bomb site. Two men are digging in the pit. A sign next to the pit reads "Danger Bomb." Identified is ..

Papua. 1942. Padre McCabe, Salvation Army chaplain (front left), sorts through letters and other papers with the assistance of two soldiers in the Kokoda Flats area. (Original housed in AWM Archive ..

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1943. An unidentified member of a RAAF Bomb Disposal Unit kneeling behind a 550 lb (250 kg) delay action bomb labelled "Bad luck Tojo", a message to the Japanese General. ..

Buna, Papua. 1943-12-25. Group portrait of three members of 17 Field Hygiene Company with three indigenous (native) Papuans. Left to right: back row: K. Munro (possibly), A. Salmon who is holding a ..

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1942. The truck used by a RAAF Bomb Disposal Unit to transport the unit's equipment and any retrieved bombs. This vehicle had a hinged sign reading "bomb disposal on this ..