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BATHURST CLASS MINESWEEPER/CORVETTE HMAS PARKES. COMPLETED ON 15TH MAY 1944 PARKES SERVED IN THE NORTHERN AUSTRALIA - NEW GUINEA AREA AND ADJACENT WATERS. AFTER THE WAR SHE SPENT SOME TIME IN NEI ..

Group portrait of members of the 2/10 Field Ambulance detachment at Rabaul, New Guinea prior to the Japanese invasion. Identified in the back row, from left to right: VX26758 Private (Pte) George ..

BATHURST CLASS MINESWEEPER/CORVETTE HMAS FREMANTLE. COMPLETED ON 12TH APRIL 1943 FREMANTLE SERVED IN THE NORTHERN AUSTRALIA - NEW GUINEA AREA AND ADJACENT WATERS FROM 1943 TO 1945. ON 30TH AUGUST ..

CAPE WARD HUNT, NEW GUINEA, 1943. LIGHT WEIGHT AIR WARNING RADAR MK II, UNDER CONSTRUCTION

NEAR WEWAK, NEW GUINEA, 1944-11-10. A RAAF CATALINA RESCUING FIVE AMERICAN AIRMEN FROM A 5TH BOMBER COMMAND COMBAT REPLACEMENT AND TRAINING CENTRE B25 AIRCRAFT WHICH WAS DOWNED FOUR MILES FROM CAPE ..

PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA,1943-10-25. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL BASE HMAS BASILISK. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

UNITED STATES TROOPS OF THE 32ND UNITED STATES DIVISION DIGGING OUT THE LANDING GEAR OF THE "SWAMP RAT", A DOUGLAS C47 AIRCRAFT OF THE UNITED STATES 5TH AIR FORCE, WHICH BECAME BOGGED IN THE SOFT ..

NEAR WEWAK, NEW GUINEA 1944-11-10. AN RAAF CATALINA RESCUING 5 AMERICAN AIRMEN OF 5TH BOMBER COMMAND COMBAT REPLACEMENT AND TRAINING CENTRE B25 WHICH WAS DOWNED FOUR MILES FROM CAPE WOM. THE ..

1944. AMPHIBIOUS CATALINAS STATIONED AT GOODENOUGH ISLAND WERE CALLED OUT ABOUT 2 AM TO INVESTIGATE FLOATING DEBRIS THOUGHT TO BE A RAFT NEAR NEW BRITAIN. TURNED OUT TO BE A FALSE ALARM. WE FLEW ..

WAU, NEW GUINEA 1943. A GROUP OF NATIVES ON THE OCCASION OF PRESENTATION OF PRIZES TO NATIVE TROOPS BY LT-GEN SIR IVEN MACKAY. (DONATED BY LADY MACKAY)

BATHURST CLASS MINESWEEPER/CORVETTE HMAS SHEPPARTON. SHEPPARTON WAS COMMISSIONED ON 1 FEBRUARY 1943 AND SPENT HER WARTIME SERVICE IN AUSTRALIAN AND NEW GUINEA WATERS. AFTER SOME POST WAR SURVEY ..

GENERAL STURDEE DISCUSSES JAPANESE TROOP DISPOSITIONS WITH GENERAL IMAMURA AND VICE-ADMIRAL KUSAKA AFTER THE SURRENDER OF JAPANESE FORCES AT RABAUL ON BOARD HMS GLORY, 1945-09-06