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Bismarck Sea, Papua - New Guinea. 1943-03. During the Battle of the Bismarck Sea in which the Japanese suffered heavy losses while attempting to reinforce their garrison at Lae, a RAAF Beaufighter ..

Bisiatabu, Sogeri Valley, New Guinea. 1943-07-01. Members of the 1st Papuan Infantry Battalion training in the method of setting a grass hut on fire silently with a burning arrow

QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS. USA. 1943-04-19. PORT BOW VIEW OF THE CRUISER USS CANBERRA (CA-70) IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO HER LAUNCH AT THE FORE RIVER YARD OF THE BETHLEHEM STEEL COMPANY. SHE WAS NAMED TO ..

Papua New Guinea. 1943-07-17. Road making in difficult terrain. It took the natives about half-an-hour to roll a huge boulder a few feet to the edge of the mountainside. Boulder is shown poised on ..

Ramu Valley, New Guinea. September 1943. Australian oops at Guy's Post

Lae, New Guinea. 27 October 1943. In a frame made by the open bows of a beach landing craft and giant road-making machinery, artillery and jeeps move out across a beach north-west of Lae. This is ..

Guy's Post, Ramu Valley, New Guinea. October 1943. Private J. Morris of Semaphore, SA, with Japanese "invasion money" found after the Japanese were driven from this area

Finschhafen Area, New Guinea. 1943-09. Matilda tanks arriving to give support to the 2nd AIF in its attack on Finschhafen

Finschhafen Area, New Guinea. 1943-10. Engineers digging out a creek to make foundations for a bridge on the main track from Finschhafen to forward areas. In the foreground Sapper C. S. Stevens of ..

Finschhafen Area, New Guinea. 1943-09. A Japanese 75mm field gun which was in a position on the side of the Katika track within 100 yards of an infantry company fired only four rounds before ..

Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1943-08-31. Two missionaries, Father K. Laumann (Germany), Father A. Cruysberg (Holland) and Brother A. Wiedmann (Germany) after their arrival in Port Moresby. Together ..

Markham Valley, New Guinea. 1943-09-05. Screened by dense smoke, paratroopers of 503 US Paratroop Infantry Regiment and Gunners of 2/4th Australian Field Regiment with their 25 pounders land ..