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Nearing the end of the Papuan campaign against Japan. NX7 Brigadier George Frederick Wootten and Major James Alastair Yates 'Chips' Denniston, studying a map at Sanananda

1943-01-27. PAPUA. SANANANDA AREA. AN ARTILLERY ATTACK ON JAPANESE PILLBOXES IS PLANNED AT SANANANDA BY COLONEL H.M. LINDSTROM OF BILLINGS, MONTANA, LIEUTENANT J. LEWITZ OF SYDNEY AND CAPTAIN C. S. ..

1943-02-02. NEW GUINEA. "JAP-MAN, HE GONE TAUBADA." IS NOW THE PASSWORD ALONG THE JUNGLE TRACKS OF THE PAPUAN COAST NOW, THE NATIVES KNOW BY BUSH TELEGRAPH INSTINCT, OR "MISSION TALK ENGLISH" THAT ..

1943-01-27. PAPUA. SANANANDA AREA. A STACK OF RIFLES AND LIGHT MACHINE GUNS CAPTURED FROM THE JAPANESE AT SANANANDA

1943-03-02. NEW GUINEA. PORT MORESBY. A GROUP OF CHINESE WHOSE AGES RANGE FROM 10 MONTHS TO 70 YEARS WALKED 500 MILES FROM WEWAK TOWARDS MORESBY. THEY LEFT WEWAK AN HOUR AFTER A JAPANESE CONVOY WAS ..

1943-02-04. NEW GUINEA. NATIVES WHO PLAYED A GREAT PART IN THE ALLIED SUCCESS IN NEW GUINEA ARE ADDRESSED BY GENERAL VASEY AT A CEREMONY AT WHICH MEDALS WERE PRESENTED. NATIVES DECORATED WITH ..

1943-02-02. NEW GUINEA. "JAP-MAN, HE GONE TAUBADA." IS NOW THE PASSWORD ALONG THE JUNGLE TRACKS OF THE PAPUAN COAST NOW, THE NATIVES KNOW BY BUSH TELEGRAPH INSTINCT, OR "MISSION TALK ENGLISH" THAT ..

1943-02-04. NEW GUINEA. WAR ARTIST ROY HODGKINSON SKETCHES NATIVE BOY BOSKI WHO COMES FROM RABAUL. HE WAS ONE OF A NUMBER TAKEN FROM NATIVE VILLAGE BY THE JAPANESE AND MADE TO ACT AS CARRIERS IN ..

1943-02-04. NEW GUINEA. NATIVES WHO PLAYED A GREAT PART IN THE ALLIED SUCCESS IN NEW GUINEA ARE ADDRESSED BY GENERAL VASEY AT A CEREMONY AT WHICH MEDALS WERE PRESENTED. (NEGATIVE BY BOTTOMLEY)

1943-03-03. PAPUA. JAPANESE UNSUCCESSFULLY ATTACK WAU. 25 POUNDERS FLOWN IN ARE UNLOADED AT WAU AERODROME. AT THIS STAGE THE JAPANESE WERE ONLY A SHORT DISTANCE FROM THE AERODROME. THESE GUNS WERE ..

1943-03-03. THESE FOUR NATIVES RECEIVED THE FIRST LOYAL SERVICE MEDALS AWARDED IN THE TERRITORY OF NEW GUINEA. THEY WERE DECORATED FOR HAVING PROVED THEMSELVES FEARLESS, WILLING, CONSCIENTIOUS AND ..

1943-03-03. NATIVE CARRIERS WHO WATCHED PRESENTATION OF LOYAL SERVICE MEDALS TO FOUR CONSTABLES, AT WAU AERODROME, WERE A COLOURFUL GROUP. SOME OF THEM WORE THEIR LAP LAPS OF BRIGHT COLOURED COTTON ..