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Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1944-07-22. Masi Igo, a Papuan native announcer, broadcasting from the Radio Station 9PA

Lae, New Guinea. 1944-06-18. Signalman C. Moore (left) and Signalman F. Kieck are two members of 17 Technical Maintenance Section overhauling and checking an AT5-ARS (Type 112) wireless transmitter ..

Qld. 1944-09-21. Martin PBM Marine flying boat, RAAF serial no. A70-12, registration VHCPL, of No. 41 Squadron RAAF based at Cairns, in flight. The pilot is 411319 Flight Lieutenant Fox of ..

Members of the Paga Paga Battery, Coast Artillery, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), sitting around a sand bag pit listening to NX146117 Chaplain F. M. Hill (left foreground, sitting on sandbags), ..

Lae, New Guinea. 1944-06-29. Major H. W. Gale, Camp Commandant (left front), and Captain C. F. Brady, Second in Command, seen in a section of the Orderly room at HQ, New Guinea Force

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1944-06-06. The interior of St John's Church of England, showing the new pews and the renovations to the Church built by members of 10 Anti-Aircraft Fortress Company

Lae, New Guinea. 1944-06-18. Members of 17 Technical Maintenance Section working on the repair of a thirty-line wall type PMG switchboard. Left to right: Staff Sergeant J. W. Harvey; Signalman C. ..

Lae, New Guinea. 1944-06-18. Interior of a section of the Trunk Telephone and Telegraph Carrier Terminal Station, Lae Base Sub Area

Lae, New Guinea. 1944-06-29. Portrait of Brigadier A. G. Torr, Chief Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, HQ New Guinea Force, in his office

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1944-07-22. Morea Hila, a Papuan native announcer, broadcasting from the Radio Station 9PA. Aged 32, he was educated at the London Missionary School at Hanuabada and ..

Markham Valley, New Guinea. 1944. An aerial view showing a section of the Markham River with Allied troops crossing the stream

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1944-06-15. An informal portrait of Lance Corporal H. Albertsen, 12 Water Transport Operating Company, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), splicing a heavy rope aboard the ..