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TOROKINA, BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND, SOLOMON ISLANDS. 1945-08-16. THE CONGREGATION AT A THANKSGIVING SERVICE FOR RAAF PERSONNEL HELD IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHAPEL, CONDUCTED BY PADRE ROSS BORDER OF ..

WEWAK AREA, NORTH EAST NEW GUINEA. C. 1945-06. IN ONE OF THE MOST AUDACIOUS RESCUES EVER CARRIED OUT BY THE RAAF, LIEUTENANT (LT) J. P. CARTER, A TEXAS MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCE ..

WEWAK AREA, NORTH EAST NEW GUINEA. C. 1945-06. IN ORDER TO RESCUE AN AMERICAN PILOT, LIEUTENANT (LT) J. P. CARTER, WHO HAD BALED OUT OF HIS LIGHTNING AIRCRAFT NEAR ENEMY-OCCUPIED TERRITORY, TWO ..

Kwinbu, New Guinea. 1945-07-28. A wounded native of the New Guinea Infantry Battalion being carried from the village of Gisananbu to a surgical post at Kwinbu

Jacquinot Bay, New Britain. 9 March 1945. Local natives in ceremonial dances for the Australian troops in the area

Aitape Sector, New Guinea. 1945-03. Australian troops advancing along the beach towards But, during the Aitape-Wewak campaign

Wewak, New Guinea. 1945. Veterans of the 6th Australian Division AIF landing at Wewak in the final assault on the area

But Beach, New Guinea. May 1945. Australian officers at a church service on the beach on the eve of the amphibious operation which resulted in the annihilation of the Japanese on the Wewak ..

Wewak Area, New Guinea. 24 May 1945. Members of Australian commando unit with a Japanese woodpecker machine gun captured by them at Dove Creek

Wewak Area, New Guinea. April 1945. A member of the Australian 6th Division 2nd AIF escorts a Japanese prisoner to a jeep near Wewak while his partner, with the machine gun, remains on the alert

New Britain. 1945-04. Left to right: Lady Blamey, Colonel N. H. W. Saxby, Lady Wakehurst and Senior Sister K. Barnes of Western Australia, at a casualty clearing station during an official visit by ..

SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN. 1942-09-15. THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS WASP, LISTING AND WITH SMOKE POURING FROM OIL AND GASOLINE FIRES CAUSED BY THREE TORPEDO HITS IN THE STARBOARD SIDE FROM THE JAPANESE ..