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Soputa, Papua. Major T. H. Ackland, surgeon, and Captain A. R. Wakefield, anaesthetist, performing an operation on a patient

Lae, New Guinea. 1944-09-07. Group portrait of members of `The Digger Dandies' concert party, Queensland Lines of Communication Area, grouped around a sign bearing their name. The entertainers are ..

Port Moresby, Papua. 1944-08-05. Major General B. M. Morris DSO, Commander of the Australian - New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU), taking the salute at the march past at the opening of the ..

Port Moresby, Papua. 1941-12. Interior of a hospital tent at No. 5 Casualty Clearing Station. Note the surgical gowns hanging on a line inside the tent and the piles of linen on tables. (Original ..

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1943. An unidentified member of a RAAF Bomb Disposal Unit kneeling behind a 550 lb (250 kg) delay action bomb labelled "Bad luck Tojo", a message to the Japanese General. ..

Buna, Papua. 1943-12-25. Group portrait of three members of 17 Field Hygiene Company with three indigenous (native) Papuans. Left to right: back row: K. Munro (possibly), A. Salmon who is holding a ..

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1942. The truck used by a RAAF Bomb Disposal Unit to transport the unit's equipment and any retrieved bombs. This vehicle had a hinged sign reading "bomb disposal on this ..

Pacific Area. c. 1942. Two guns in an Australian anti aircraft battery ready for firing

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1943. Group portrait of members of a RAAF Bomb Disposal Unit. Left to right: back row: unidentified, Larry Appleby, 'Lofty', Lazarini, unidentified, unidentified. Front ..

Buna, Papua. c.1943. Indigenous (native) Papuans work at draining a swamp in an attempt to eradicate the malarial mosquito. (Original print housed with AWM Private Records)

Two RAAF Intelligence Officers, 255538 Flying Officer (FO) Harold Peter Moschetti (left) and 255266 FO Stuart Patrick King, examine aerial photographs of the Japanese-held Kahili airstrip on ..

Portrait of 82 Squadron Leader Bruce Barton “Barney” Cresswell, commanding Officer of No 76 Squadron RAAF. Cresswell was killed on 17 April, 1942 while flying a 75 Squadron aircraft on an early ..