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SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS. C.1943. A US NAVY LANDING SHIP, TANK (LST) BEACHED AND ON FIRE AFTER A JAPANESE AIR ATTACK. ANOTHER LST PLAYS STREAMS OF WATER ONTO THE FIRES. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

PORT HERVEY, PAPUA. 1943-05-09. BOMB DAMAGE TO THE BOILER OF THE MERCHANT VESSEL NOORA, DAMAGED BY JAPANESE AIR ATTACK. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

ESPIRITU SANTO, NEW HEBRIDES. 1943-07-23. VIEW OF THE TORPEDO DAMAGE TO THE CRUISER HMAS HOBART (I) FROM THE STARBOARD PASSAGE NEAR 187 STATION, LOOKING AFT TOWARDS THE PORT QUARTER. (NAVAL ..

SOPUTA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-03-01. MAJOR HOBCROFT, WAR GRAVES COMMISSION, BESIDE THE TIGER MOTH AIRCRAFT FLOWN BY DAN THATCHER, NO.1 AIR SEA RESCUE SQUADRON, RAAF. IN LANDING IN THE LONG KUNAI GRASS, ..

TOROKINA, BOUGAINVILLE. 1945. AERIAL VIEW OF 2/1ST AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL

MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-08-15. OSMAR WHITE, MELBOURNE "SUN" NEWSPAPER WAR CORRESPONDENT WITH MEMBERS OF A UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL UNIT IN AN AMBULANCE OUTSIDE HIS HOME AT BRIGHTON BEACH. WHITE HAD ..

PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA. 1942-12. DAN THATCHER (LEFT) AND TOM FRENCH, BOTH OF NO. 1 AIR SEA RESCUE SQUADRON, RAAF. (DONOR D. THATCHER)

RAIDER VICTIMS ARRIVE IN AUSTRALIA AFTER HAVING THEIR SHIPS HAD BEEN SUNK AND THEY HAD BEEN LANDED ON ISL. OF EMIRAU - MRS. LANGAR AND ONE OF HER TWO SMALL SONS. MRS. LANGAR'S OTHER SON WAS A ..

ENGLAND. 1944-07-25. RAAF FIGHTER PILOTS WITH NO. 56 SQUADRON RAF. LEFT TO RIGHT: 420315 PILOT OFFICER (PO) K. WATTS, NARRABEEN LAKES, NSW; 413935 FLYING OFFICER L. J. HENDERSON, SAMARAI, PAPUA; ..

HEIDELBERG, VIC. 1944-01-15. SERGEANT E. G. SAUNDERS, A WOUNDED SOLDIER EVACUATED FROM NEW GUINEA, CUDDLES HIS YOUNG DAUGHTER BEVERLY WHILE HIS WIFE NURSES BABY DENISE WHEN THEY VISIT HIM IN THE ..

Wewak, New Guinea. 1943-12-01. Aerial photograph of thick black smoke billowing up from the harbour foreshore, possibly after attack by aircraft of the United States Army Air Force

PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA. 1943-01-16. REPAIRED UNDERCARRIAGE OF A TIGER MOTH AIRCRAFT FLOWN BY TOM FRENCH, NO. 1 AIR SEA RESCUE SQUADRON, RAAF. HE AND LIEUTENANT SNOOKS OF AUSTRALIAN NEW GUINEA ..