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VX12436 Corporal George Swallow, 2/5 Battalion of Warragul on patrol at Mount Tambu

VOTING IN NORTH WEST AUSTRALIA. THE RETURNING OFFICER AND HIS ASSISTANT ARRIVING IN THEIR SWIMMING COSTUMES AT AN OUTPOST IN NORTH WEST AUSTRALIA TO ISSUE BALLOT PAPERS TO AUSTRALIAN TROOPS TO VOTE ..

1943-09-14. NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. CPL. FRANK YOUNG, OF PORT MORESBY USES A JAPANESE FLAG IN A MANNER WHICH ITS OWNER NEVER INTENDED. THE FLAG WAS FOUND AFTER THE JAPANESE HAD BEEN DRIVEN FROM ..

1943-09-14. NEW GUINEA KOMIATUM RIDGE. AMONG EQUIPMENT HURRIEDLY ABANDONED BY THE JAPANESE WHEN THEY RETREATED FROM KOMIATUM RIDGE TOWARDS SALAMAUA, WERE TWO-TOED RUBBER SNEAK BOOTS USED BY THE ..

1943-09-14. NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. CPL. STAN HUSTON, OF BLACKBURN, VIC., WITH A JAPANESE LIGHT MACHINE GUN AND PTE. STAN TAYLOR, OF MELBOURNE, WITH A JAPANESE KNEE MORTAR CAPTURED ON KOMIATUM ..

1943-09-14. NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. PTE. FRED MARTIN OF DUNEDO, N.S.W., SHOWS A NATIVE CARRIER, DARSU, THREE-INCH SHELLS LEFT BEHIND BY THE JAPANESE WHEN THEY ABANDONED KOMIATUM RIDGE. ..

1943-09-14. NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. IN THEIR HURRIED RETREAT FROM KOMIATUM RIDGE THE JAPANESE LEFT BEHIND WHAT FOR THEM WAS A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF EQUIPMENT. PTE. LES. HARGREAVES OF BELLEVUE ..

1943-09-15. PARATROOPS LAND AT NADZAB. U.S. PARATROOPS PACKING THEIR EQUIPMENT LAST SUNDAY BEFORE BOARDING ONE OF THE NUMEROUS TRANSPORT PLANES WHICH LED BY GENERAL MACARTHUR IN A FLYING FORTRESS, ..

1943-09-15. NEW GUINEA. HODGES KNOLL. AFTER THE JAPANESE HAD BEEN DRIVEN FROM THIS FOX HOLE AT HODGES KNOLL, NEAR KOMIATUM PTE. JOE THOMAS, OF PERTH, FOUND THIS JAPANESE WATERBOTTLE. (NEGATIVE BY ..

Private (Pte) William (Bill) Plunkett, of Geelong, Vic, with a Japanese light machine gun found after the Australians had driven the enemy from the ridge. The Japanese weapon closely resembles a ..

1943-09-15. ALLIED PARATROOPERS. AMERICAN AND AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERYMEN PARACHUTING TO THE MARKHAM VALLEY. THREE OF THE SCORES OF GIANT TRANSPORT PLANES WHICH WERE USED CAN BE OBSERVED. TO THE LEFT ..

1943-09-20. NEW GUINEA. BUSO RIVER - LAE AREA. AT ALUKIE VILLAGE AUSTRALIANS HANG UP THEIR WASHING OUTSIDE A NATIVE HUT. (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK)