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1943-09-14. NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. MEMBERS OF THE A.I.F. TEST A JAPANESE TYPE 92 MACHINE GUN CAPTURED ON KOMIATUM RIDGE. THIS TYPE OF MACHINE GUN IS KNOWN TO THE AUSTRALIANS AS THE ..

1943-08-30. NEW GUINEA. STAFF OF A U.S. PORTABLE HOSPITAL ON MOUNT TAMBU HAVING BREAKFAST. THEY WERE WITHIN 600 YARDS OF THE JAPANESE POSITIONS (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK)

1943-09-14. NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. AUSTRALIANS EXAMINE A THREE INCH MORTAR CAPTURED FROM THE JAPS AFTER THEY HAD BEEN DRIVEN FROM KOMIATUM RIDGE. THE MORTAR WAS A DUTCH TYPE AND HAD PROBABLY ..

1943-09-15. NEW GUINEA. THE COMMANDER OF THE ALLIED LAND FORCES IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, GENERAL SIR THOMAS BLAMEY INSPECTS AUSTRALIAN TROOPS AT A NEW GUINEA BASE. (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK)

1943-09-15. NEW GUINEA. GOODVIEW JUNCTION. THREE MEMBERS OF AN A.I.F. UNIT WHICH ON PATROL AT KOMIATUM KILLED EIGHTEEN JAPANESE. LEFT TO RIGHT: CORPORAL CHARLES WILSON, OF COLLINGWOOD, VIC, PRIVATE ..

1943-09-14. NEW GUINEA. KOMIATUM RIDGE. CPL. BILL MCDONNELL, OF ORMOND, VIC., WITH HIS FACE SMEARED WITH CAMOUFLAGE GREEN PAINT. MCDONNELL HAD JUST RETURNED FROM THE FIGHTING PATROL ON KOMIATUM ..

1943-09-15. PARATROOPS LAND AT NADZAB. GENERAL MACARTHUR TALKS TO U.S. PARATROOPS OFFICER LAST SUNDAY SHORTLY BEFORE THE GENERAL IN A FLYING FORTRESS LED THE AERIAL ARMADA TO THE MARKHAM VALLEY. ..

1943-09-15. LAE SALAMAUA ISOLATED. ON THIS BEACH, NORTH WEST OF LAE, 30 MINUTES BEFORE THE AUSTRALIANS LANDED THERE WAS NOT A MARK. THE AUSTRALIANS STREAMING INLAND FROM THE LANDING CRAFT QUICKLY ..

1943-09-15. NEW GUINEA. GOODVIEW JUNCTION. TYPICAL JUNGLE COUNTRY AND TYPICAL JAPANESE DEFENCES FROM WHICH THE ENEMY WERE DRIVEN BY THE AUSTRALIANS BETWEEN KOMIATUM AND SALAMAUA. FOX HOLES WERE ..

1943-09-20. NEW GUINEA. BUSO RIVER. LAE AREA. AN ALLIED LANDING CRAFT DAMAGED BY JAPANESE BOMBS. (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK)

1943-09-15. LAE SALAMAUA ISOLATED. PIONEERS WORKING KNEE-DEEP IN MUD AND SLIME CONSTRUCT A ROAD FOR MOTOR TRANSPORT 70 MINUTES AFTER THE AUSTRALIANS HAD LANDED NORTH WEST OF LAE. TO GET A ..

1943-09-15. LAE SALAMAUA ISOLATED. THROBBING ACTIVITY ON A BEACH NORTH WEST OF LAE WHERE AN HOUR EARLIER THERE WAS NO SIGN OF WAR. MEN, JEEPS AND TRUCKS ARE MOVING FORWARD IN THE TRAIL OF THE ..