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Goodenough Island, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua, 1944. The hut occupied by the Photography Section at the Headquarters of No. 71 Wing RAAF. The sign on the tree at left reads: "Photographic ..

Goodenough Island, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua, 1944-04-11. Makeshift washing trough next to a jungle stream at the Headquarters of No. 71 Wing RAAF. The trough is continuously fed by a pipe ..

Upper Ramu Valley, New Guinea. October 1943. This Australian post, on the edge of a 3000 ft precipice, was under Japanese artillery fire when this photograph was taken

Noumea, New Caledonia, 1943-01-20. The United States Navy (USN) Escort Aircraft Carrier USS Chenango (CV-28) at anchor off Noumea. Aircraft on the flight desk include seven Douglas SBD Dauntless, ..

Goodenough Island, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua, 1944-04-01. General view of No. 5 Medical Receiving Station RAAF based at the Headquarters of No. 71 Wing RAAF. The station consists of a complex ..

Ramu Valley, New Guinea. 21 October 1943. New Guinea natives from a forward dressing station carry supplies packed in a wire framed trailer across the Surinam River

Munum Waters, Near Nadzab, New Guinea. 1943-09. Private Jack Johnson of Munda, Qld, relaxes while waiting for his jeep to be dragged out of the Yalu River

Milne Bay, Papua. 1949-08. War salvaged materials have been utilised by Papuans in building their houses which look like part of a housing estate. This photograph was taken seven years after World ..

New Guinea. 1943-07-20. Members of the 2/6th Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF, at the House Banana Staging Camp which was about five miles south west of Mubo. The soldiers are, from the left, ..

Saipan, Mariana Islands. 1944-06-15. US Marines falling from wounds from Japanese snipers during the US landing on Saipan. the subsequent battle lasted a month. US casualties, killed wounded or ..

Bulldog-Wau Road, New Guinea. 1943-07-14. An Australian soldier making a precipitous climb up a slippery side track. At this time the road between the twenty one and a half and twenty three mile ..

Donadabu, New Guinea. 1943-07-26. The men of No 7 Platoon, A Company, 61st Battalion, before the start of a supply dropping exercise. Left to right: front row, Privates N. Quine, Dwyer, L. Crowe; ..