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1943-08-30. NEW GUINEA. AN AMERICAN BEING CARRIED UP A ONE IN THREE TRACK ON MOUNT TAMBU TO A FRONT LINE DRESSING STATION. AMERICAN WAS AMBUSHED AT A WATER HOLE. EIGHT SHOTS WERE FIRED AT HIM FROM ..

1943-09-03. DESIGNED BOOMERANG AIRCRAFT. WING COMMANDER L.J. WACKETT, WHO DESIGNED AUSTRALIA'S NEW FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR, WHICH PARTICIPATED SUCCESSFULLY IN THE ALLIED LANDINGS NEAR LAE HAS A WORD ..

1943-09-14. NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. CPL. CHARLES LETTERS, OF SYDNEY AND CPL. FRANK YOUNG, OF PORT MORESBY, DISPLAY A JAPANESE FLAG FOUND ON KOMIATUM RIDGE AFTER THE ENEMY HAD BEEN FORCED FROM ..

1943-09-03. BOOMERANG TAKES OFF. THE NEW AUSTRALIAN MADE FIGHTER-INTERCEPTOR PLANE, THE BOOMERANG, PARTICIPATED SUCCESSFULLY IN THE ALLIED LANDINGS NEAR LAE. HERE THE FIRST BOOMERANG TAKES OFF ON ..

1943-09-14. NEW GUINEA. TROOPS VOTING IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS. WITHIN HALF A MILE OF THE JAPANESE FRONT LINES AT FOODVIEW JUNCTION, AUSTRALIAN TROOPS VOTED IN THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS. THIS PHOTO SHOWS ..

1943-09-14. NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. MEMBERS OF THE A.I.F. PLAYING CARDS AFTER THEY HAD DRIVEN THE JAPANESE FROM KOMIATUM RIDGE. SITTING ON THE CASE WITH JAPANESE LETTERING IS PTE. WALLY FORD, ..

1943-09-14. NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. PTE. STAN ELVY OF PERTH, W.A., WITH A THREE INCH MORTAR ABANDONED BY THE JAPANESE AT KOMIATUM RIDGE. THE MORTAR WAS OF A DUTCH MANUFACTURE AND IT HAD ..

1943-09-14. NEW GUINEA. SUPPLIES ON THEIR WAY TO THE FRONT LINE IN NEW GUINEA. JEEPS TOOK THE SUPPLIES TO THE END OF THE ROAD AND FROM THERE NATIVE CARRIERS TRANSPORTED THEM TO FRONT LINES. ..

1943-09-15. ALLIED PARACHUTISTS. DROPPING IN THE MARKHAM VALLEY FROM 12 OF THE SCORES OF GIANT TRANSPORT PLANES. IN THE BACKGROUND IS THE SMOKESCREEN LAID IN FIGHTER PLANES TO PROTECT THE ..

1943-09-15. PARATROOPS LAND AT NADZAB. AUSTRALIAN OFFICERS WHO WITH OTHER AUSTRALIAN AIRBORNE ARTILLERY LANDED IN THE MARKHAM VALLEY, AND WITH AMERICAN PARATROOPS TRAPPED THE REMNANTS OF THE FOUR ..

1943-09-15. PARATROOPS LAND AT NADZAB. THREE SMILING AMERICAN PARATROOPERS, CARRYING FULL EQUIPMENT READY TO JOIN ONE OF THE NUMEROUS PLANES WHICH FLEW THEM AND OTHER AMERICAN PARATROOPERS AND ..

1943-09-15. NEW GUINEA. GOODVIEW JUNCTION. PTE. HARRY MCLENNAN, OF DIMBOOLA, VIC., WITH A JAPANESE BAYONET WHICH HE FILED DOWN FOR USE AS A SHEATH KNIFE. (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK)