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NEW GUINEA: GOVERNOR-GENERAL, LORD GOWRIE, VISITS NEW GUINEA. LORD GOWRIE INSPECTS AN AMERICAN AIRCRAFT WORKSHOP

WEWAK AREA, NORTH EAST NEW GUINEA. C. 1945-03. SMOKE BILLOWS FROM TARGETS SET ON FIRE BY BEAUFORT BOMBER AIRCRAFT OF NO 8 SQUADRON RAAF AND NO. 100 SQUADRON RAAF. JAPANESE "SMOKED OUT" BY THE ..

NEW GUINEA. UPPER RAMU VALLEY ADVANCE. A FORWARD POST IN THE RAMU VALLEY. LIEUT. R. MCFARLANE OF MELBOURNE AND PTE. T. RICHARDSON OF EAST GRESFORD, N.S.W. EXAMINE A VILLAGE FROM WHICH THE JAPS HAD ..

NEW GUINEA: GOVERNOR-GENERAL, LORD GOWRIE, VISITS NEW GUINEA. IN THIS PHOTO VARI GARI OF SARDA VILLAGE, NEAR BUNA, RECEIVES A MEDAL FOR HAVING SHOWN GREAT COURAGE IN ACTION WITH TWO AUSTRALIAN ..

NEW GUINEA. MAY 1945. AN AUSTER CUB AMBULANCE PLANE WHICH IS USED TO TRANSPORT WOUNDED FROM MAPRIK TO BUT AIRSTRIP WHERE IT IS MET BY AN AMBULANCE WHICH CONVEYS THE PATIENTS TO THE CASUALTY ..

NEW GUINEA. UPPER RAMU VALLEY ADVANCE. A FORWARD POST IN THE RAMU VALLEY. SGT. J. MARSHALL OF SALE, VICTORIA, ONE OF THE SOLDIERS WHO PUSHED THE JAPANESE OFF THE RIDGE AT THIS POST

BOUGAINVILLE: 30 MARCH 1945. PRIOR TO CROSSING THE PURIATA RIVER THE AUSTRALIAN MANNED MATILDA TANKS OF B SQUADRON, 2/4 ARMOURED REGIMENT WERE MADE WATERPROOF BY THE USE OF THICK GREASE. TANK 72754 ..

NEW GUINEA. UPPER RAMU VALLEY ADVANCE. A FORWARD POST AT WHICH PATROLS MAKE CONTACT WITH JAPANESE. THE RIVER, WHICH VARIES IN SPEED FROM 5-12 KNOTS, HAS TO BE CROSSED ABOUT THIRTY TIMES ON THE WAY ..

Group portrait of pilots and aircrews of Nos. 8 and 100 (Beaufort) Squadrons RAAF returning after an operation over enemy territory

TADJI NEAR AITAPE, NORTH EAST NEW GUINEA. C. 1944-10. MEMBERS OF NO. 8 (BEAUFORT) SQUADRON RAAF ATTACHING A BOMB TO A RACK OF ONE OF THE SQUADRON AIRCRAFT

NEW GUINEA. FINSCHHAFEN AREA. NOVEMBER 1943. AFTER HEAVY RAIN MANY BRIDGES WERE WASHED AWAY IMPOSING HEAVY TASKS ON OUR TROOPS. A FERRY PONTOON IS SHOWN BEING RIGGED TO TRANSPORT JEEPS ACROSS THE ..

NEW GUINEA: GOVERNOR-GENERAL, LORD GOWRIE, VISITS NEW GUINEA. LORD GOWRIE INSPECTS AUSTRALIAN MANNED AIRCRAFT. PHOTOGRAPHED WITH HIM ARE SQUADRON LEADER W.T.M. BOLTON. SYDNEY F/O NORMAN FRASER, OF ..