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PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS STOP ON EORIBAIWA RIDGE TO LOOK AT THE SCENERY TOWARDS KOKODA

PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. A JAPANESE MOUNTAIN GUN SHELL DUMP, FOUND ON IORIBAIWA RIDGE AFTER THE JAPS HAD BEEN DRIVEN FROM THE RIDGE

PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. VIEW FROM POINT ON NAURO RIDGE FROM WHERE THE JAPANESE SHELLED EORIBAIWA, WHICH IS IN THE DISTANCE

PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. WOUNDED JAPANESE PRISONER BEING CARED FOR BY AUSTRALIAN STRETCHER BEARERS

PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. A JAPANESE OBSERVATION POST IN A TREE WITH BUSH LADDER APPROACH. AN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER IS SEEN CLIMBING THE LADDER

PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. NATIVE CARRIERS CROSSING GOLDIE RIVER ON WAY TO NAURO RIDGE. MANY JAPANESE WERE KILLED IN THIS GORGE

PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. NATIVE CARRIERS CROSSING GOLDIE RIVER ON WAY TO NAURO RIDGE. MANY JAPANESE WERE KILLED IN THIS GORGE

Soldiers and a native bearer climb the so-called Golden Stairs rising towards Imita Ridge. Each step was battened at its edge by a rough log. These were sometimes broken and therefore treacherous, ..

MARIBYRNONG, AUSTRALIA. 1942-10-12. SIX NATIVE SOLDIERS FROM NEW GUINEA WHO WERE SHOWN OVER THE MUNITION WORKS AT MARIBYRNONG ARE SEEN BORE EXAMINING THE MOUNTING OF A BIG GUN

MARIBYRNONG, AUSTRALIA. 1942-10-12. SIX NATIVE SOLDIERS FROM NEW GUINEA ARE HAVING EXPLAINED TO THEM THE TECHNICALITIES OF MACHINERY AT THE MUNITION WORKS AT MARIBYRNONG WHERE THEY WERE SHOWN OVER ..

MARIBYRNONG, AUSTRALIA. 1942-10-12. A PARTY OF SIX NATIVE SOLDIERS FROM NEW GUINEA WERE SHOWN OVER THE MUNITION WORKS AND HERE ARE SEEN SOME OF THEM EXAMINING THE BORE OF AN ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN

MARIBYRNONG, AUSTRALIA. 1942-10-12. A PARTY OF SIX NEW GUINEA NATIVE SOLDIERS ON A TOUR OF INSPECTION OF THE MUNITION WORKS WATCH A LARGE SHELL BEING FILLED WITH EXPLOSIVE