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1943-08-05. NEW GUINEA. SQUADRON LEADER A.N. "JERRY" PENTLAND, M.C., D.F.C. WHO IS ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S BEST KNOWN AIRMEN, NOW FLIES WITH AN RAAF RESCUE SQUADRON IN NEW GUINEA, WHERE HIS WIDE ..

1943-08-04. NEW GUINEA. MUBO CAMPAIGN. AUSTRALIAN AND AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT THE JAPS FROM NASSAU BAY TO MUBOM GAZE AT SALAMAUA. IN THE DIRECT LINE IT IS NOT SO VERY FAR AWAY FROM THESE ..

1943-08-04. NEW GUINEA. MUBO CAMPAIGN. WASHING DAY SOMEWHERE NEAR MUBO ON THE SIDE OF A STEEPLY GRADED SLOPE. STAFF SERGEANT LES ALMOND OF ELSTERNWICK, VIC., AND CPL. FRANK MILTROY OF ST. KILDA, ..

1943-08-09. NEW GUINEA. CAPT. NORMAN SCOTT-YOUNG, OF LANE COVE, N.S.W. OUTSIDE AN ADVANCED DRESSING STATION AT MAT MAT. CAPT. SCOTT-YOUNG WAS A LIGHT HEAVY WEIGHT AMATEUR CHAMPION BOXER. (NEGATIVE ..

Mount Tambu fighting. Members of 2/5 Battalion firing mortars at Japanese positions 60 yards away. Left to right: NX115759 Private (Pte) Athol James Butler of Bathurst, NSW; VX27151 Pte Findlay ..

1943-08-10. NEW GUINEA. MOUNT TAMBU FIGHTING. WITHIN SOUND OF RIFLE, ARTILLERY AND MORTAR FIRE, FATHER THEO O'KEEFE, OF ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH, CAMPERDOWN, VIC, HOLDS MASS ALONGSIDE A MOUNTAIN STREAM ..

1943-08-11. NEW GUINEA. MOUNT TAMBU FIGHTING. UP TO THEIR KNEES IN MUD AND WATER, PTE. LEO BODY, OF PRESTON, VIC., CPL. W. CUMMINGS, OF ST KILDA, VIC., AND LIEUT. S. BELL, OF SOUTH MELBOURNE, ..

1943-08-10. NEW GUINEA. MOUNT TAMBU FIGHTING. EVACUATING WOUNDED DOWN A SLOPE OF ALMOST ONE IN ONE. (NEGATIVE BY G. SHORT)

New Britain. December 1943. Perfect co-operation between air, sea and land forces was a feature of the landing at Arawe which was perfectly planned and admirably executed. The Allied air arm ..

1943-08-11. NEW GUINEA. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS EXAMINE A BOMB CRATER MADE BY A "BLOCK BUSTER" DROPPED NEAR MUBO DURING WHAT WAS THEN THE BIGGEST AIR BLITZ ON ANY SINGLE JAP TARGET IN NEW GUINEA. IN 45 ..

1943-08-11. NEW GUINEA. PTE. A.J. WATT, OF NORTHCOTE, VIC, SMILES AFTER THE JAPS NEAR OBSERVATORY HILL, MUBO HAD BEEN SUBJECTED TO WHAT WHAT WAS THEN THE BIGGEST AIR BLITZ ON A SINGLE JAP LAND ..

1943-08-14. NEW GUINEA. MOUNT TAMBU FIGHTING. ON THIS FORWARD BASE FOR SUPPLIES THE SUN HAS NEVER BEEN KNOWN TO SHINE AND GENERALLY A LIGHT MISTY RAIN IS FALLING. IN CHARGE OF THE BASE ARE WARRANT ..