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New Guinea. 1944-10-27. Portrait of war artist SX7174 Captain Ivor Hele with tent lines in the background

Melbourne, VIC. 1940-09. Outdoors group portrait of members of the Melbourne Football Club team with club officials at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, after the team had won the 1940 Victorian ..

Lae, New Guinea. 11 August 1944. Informal group portrait of members of the White Horse Inn concert party on stage. The concert party was made up of members of 2/7 Australian General Hospital (AGH), ..

Assistant Medical Officer Arthur Coomber on patrol in the Maprik District with a holstered Luger pistol on his belt. When New Guinea was invaded by Japanese forces in 1942 Arthur Coomber's family ..

Outside Lae, New Guinea. 1943. American paratroopers Lieutenant (Lt) Joe Phelan of Grand Island, Nebraska, Corporal (Cpl) Casey Kalowski of Buffalo, New York and Private (Pte) F. Summer of ..

Pearl Ridge, Bougainville. 1945-03-07. Unidentified members of a reconnaissance patrol from the Far Eastern Liaison Office (FELO) relaxing with a cup of tea outside a Young Men's Christain ..

New Guinea. 1944-02-20. RAAF members are now flying American Liberator aircraft operating in New Guinea. Every state except Tasmania is represented in the Liberator crews. Left to right: Pilot ..

KEEPING THE DEFENCE IN ORDER AT AN ADVANCED OPERATIONAL BASE IN NEW GUINEA. JAPANESE RAIDERS ARE FINDING IT INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO OPERATE EFFECTIVELY AGAINST OUR FORWARD BASES OWING TO THE ..

ALLIED BOMBER PILOTS AT A FORWARD OPERATIONAL BASE DISCUSS DETAILS OF A RAID TO BE MADE AGAINST THE JAPANESE POSITIONS IN NEW GUINEA. (NEGATIVE BY PARER)

PORT MORESBY. LIEUTENANT JOHN HALL OF ALABAMA, A PILOT OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY AIR CORPS AIRACOBRA 40TH PURSUIT SQUADRON. HE IS DISPLAYING THE SQUADRON'S DEVIL EMBLEM ON HIS TUNIC AND ON THE ..

New Guinea. 1944-02-17. In the big air raid on the Japanese held base of Kavieng, New Ireland, eight of the attacking Allied planes were shot down. A Catalina landed four times on the harbour and, ..

AUSTRALIAN GROUND DEFENCE UNITS OPERATING A SEARCHLIGHT DURING AN ENEMY NIGHT RAID AGAINST OUR POSITIONS IN NEW GUINEA. (NEGATIVE BY PARER)