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1942-12-05. PAPUA. ALLIES ATTACK BUNA. AS AUSTRALIAN TROOPS PUSH ACROSS THE AIR STRIP AT BUNA THIS LITTLE WHITE GOAT APPEARED FROM NOWHERE AND BECAME THE MASCOT OF AN AUSTRALIAN OUTFIT. HE IS HELD ..

1943-01-02. PAPUA, GIROPA POINT. GENERAL STUART M3 TANKS MANNED BY 7 TROOP, B SQUADRON, 2/6TH ARMOURED REGIMENT, ATTACK JAPANESE PILLBOXES IN THE FINAL ASSAULT ON BUNA. ON THE LEFT, WOUNDED SOLDIER ..

GIROPA POINT, PAPUA. 1943-01-02. AUSTRALIAN MANNED GENERAL STUART M3 TANKS ATTACK JAPANESE PILLBOXES IN THE FINAL ASSAULT ON BUNA. AMID SHELL TORN COCONUT TREES, A MORTAR CREW FROM D COMPANY, ..

AUSTRALIAN MANNED GENERAL STUART M3 TANKS BUST JAPANESE PILLBOXES IN THE FINAL ASSAULT ON BUNA. MEN OF D COMPANY, 2/12TH BATTALION, SHOOT JAPANESE FLEEING FROM A TANK BLASTED PILLBOX. SMOKE AT LEFT ..

PAPUA. BUNA. ARTILLERY CLEARS WAY FOR INFANTRY. NINETY FEET ABOVE THE GROUND A FORWARD OBSERVATION OFFICER AT BUNA WATCHES THE FALL OF SHELLS FROM AN AUSTRALIAN 25 POUNDER BATTERY. HIS POST IS 300 ..

1943-01-08. STRETCHER CASES BEING TAKEN TO THE BASE BY JEEP, ONE OF MANY USES TO WHICH THESE SPLENDID LIGHT CARS HAVE BEEN PUT IN NEW GUINEA. (NEGATIVE BY G. SILK)

1943-01-08. PAPUA. BUNA. EVIDENCE OF THE ACCURACY OF ALLIED AIRMEN WHEN THEY BOMBED THE AIR STRIP AT BUNA IS THIS WRECKED JAPANESE BOMBER ON THE LANDING STRIP. (NEGATIVE BY G. SILK)

1943-01-08. ALLIED ADVANCE ON BUNA. ALLIED TROOPS EXAMINING ONE OF TWO JAPANESE 3 INCH NAVAL GUNS USED BY THE ENEMY IN THEIR DEFENCE OF BUNA. THIS GUN WAS CAPTURED BY AUSTRALIANS ON THE AIRSTRIP AT ..

PAPUA. 8 JANUARY 1943. CAPTURED AIR-STRIP AT BUNA. JAPANESE LEFT BEHIND PLANES STRAFED BY ALLIED FIGHTERS. NOTE BULLET HOLES IN WING OF ZERO AIRCRAFT. THIS IS ONE OF THE NEW TYPE SQUARE WING ZERO

Dobodura, New Guinea. 1 January 1943. Corporal John Griffiths (seated in the jeep), Corporal Herbert (Herb) Burrow (standing on the wing, working under the raised inspection cover) and an ..

1943-01-14. PAPUA. BUNA. PTE. E.J. PICKETT OF BROKEN HILL, PTE. E. LISK OF QUEENSTOWN, SOUTH AUST. AND PTE. F.E. HOW OF STIRLING, SOUTH AUST, ENJOY A SPELL AFTER AN ALL NIGHT PATROL BEHIND JAPANESE ..

1942-12-23. PAPUA. SOPUTA. A WARD AT THE MAIN DRESSING STATION NEAR SOPUTA. (NEGATIVE BY G. SILK)