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1943-10-06. NEW GUINEA. ATTACK ON LAE. THIS PLATOON OF A FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN BATTALION TOOK PART IN THE VICTORIOUS ADVANCE ON LAE. BRENGUNNERS TAKE UP A POSITION IN AN OLD JAPANESE FOX HOLE. THEY ARE ..

1943-10-08. NEW GUINEA. AT KAIAPIT. NATIVES WHO A WEEK PREVIOUSLY WERE CONTROLLED BY THE JAPANESE RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS ON AUSTRALIAN METHODS OF WORKING FROM LT. IRELAND OF COLLAROY N.S.W. SGT. J. ..

1943-10-08. NEW GUINEA. MARKHAM VALLEY ADVANCE. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS STOP FOR A REST ON THE WAY TO MARAWASA. LEFT TO RIGHT ARE SGT. F. MATTHEWS OF KALGOORLIE, W.A. AND SIG. P. LAMP OF HINTON, N.S.W. ..

1943-09-22. NEW GUINEA. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS CAPTURE LAE. MEN FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIAN AND VICTORIAN UNITS REST BESIDE A JAPANESE HEADQUARTERS FLAG AT LAE. LEFT TO RIGHT - PTES. DAVID INGRAM, HAROLD ..

1943-09-15. NEW GUINEA. GOODVIEW JUNCTION COOKING SCONES WITHIN A HALF A MILE OF THE FRONT LINE AT GOODVIEW JUNCTION. ON THE LEFT IS CPL. JIM DRUMMOND, OF GUNBOWER, VIC. WITH HIM IS PTE. ALBERT ..

1943-09-15. NEW GUINEA. HODGES KNOLL. AFTER THE JAPANESE HAD BEEN DRIVEN FROM THIS FOX HOLE AT HODGES KNOLL NEAR KOMIATUM, PTE. KEAN, OF SWAN HILL, VIC., FOUND THESE JAPANESE GRENADES AND SMALL ..

1943-09-20. NEW GUINEA. BUSO RIVER - LAE AREA. A HEAVY ARMY TRUCK FORDS THE SWIFTLY FLOWUNG BUSO RIVER. (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK)

New Guinea. Goodview Junction. Private Clarry Elliott, of Dimboola, Vic, an AIF sniper at Goodview Junction examines the British made pattern 1918 telescopic sight mounted on his No 3 MK1*(T) .303 ..

1943-09-20. NEW GUINEA. BUSO RIVER. - LAE AREA. ARMY VEHICLES CROSS A BRIDGE BUILT ACROSS THE BUSO RIVER. IN THE FOREGROUND AUSTRALIANS SOLDIERS WASH IN THE RIVER. (NEGATIVE BY H. DICK)

NEAR LAE, NEW GUINEA, 1943-09-22. SERGEANT J.C. HOLLAND AND LANCE CORPORAL J. FULTON CARRY A WOUNDED MATE FROM THE MUD AND SLUSH TO AN ADVANCED DRESSING STATION NEAR LAE

1943-09-20. NEW GUINEA. FOOD IN THE FRONT LINE. PRACTICAL EVIDENCE OF THE WORK OF OPERATIVES IN PREPARING SPECIAL PACKS FOR TROOPS OPERATING IN FORWARD JUNGLE AREAS. TAKEN AT GOODVIEW JUNCTION THIS ..

1943-09-22. NEW GUINEA. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS CAPTURE LAE. INSIDE THE SHATTERED ICE WORKS AT LAE. TROOPS REFRESH THEMSELVES WITH ICE WATER