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Portrait of an unidentified Australian Army lieutenant (right) with a Lieutenant Colonel Woo Yien, commander of the Nationalist Chinese Army in New Britain, at a Japanese prisoner-of-war (POW) ..

Madang, New Guinea, 1945-08. Madang Air Strip, showing buildings, aircraft, vehicles, equipment and supplies. A Bristol Beaufort aircraft of No. 15 Squadron RAAF is parked in a hangar (right). One ..

Lesson Point, Rabaul, New Britain, 1945-10. Informal outdoors group portrait of Japanese servicemen with members of a RAAF Equipment Recovery Party after the Japanese surrender. The men are (left ..

Rabaul, New Britain, 1945-10. A row of huts stands among tropical palm trees at a former Japanese prisoner-of-war (POW) camp for captured Indian soldiers from the Punjab. The huts, roofed with ..

Rabaul, New Britain, 1945-10. Informal outdoors portrait of three Australian officers, members of a postwar recovery party, with a large group of Chinese prisoners-of-war (POWs) that they have ..

Rabaul, New Britain, 1945-10. The entrance to a Japanese prisoner-of-war (POW) camp for captured soldiers of the Nationalist Chinese Army. The gateway is a bamboo structure which the former POWs ..

Madang, New Guinea, 1945-06. Carrying palm leaves and wearing ceremonial dress, a group of native Papuan men perform a traditional dance and 'sing-sing'

Madang, New Guinea, 1945-08-15. During their celebrations for Victory in the Pacific (VP) Day, RAAF servicemen from Headquarters, RAAF Northern Command (NORCOM), sit on an upturned boat or dinghy ..

Madang, New Guinea, 1945-07. Flight Lieutenant Jim Hodges plays a game of 'batington' at Headquarters, RAAF Northern Command (NORCOM), on the shores of Astrolabe Bay. The game is a local variant of ..

Karkar Island, New Guinea, 1944-12. On a sandy beach under an enormous tropical palm tree, Flying Officer 'Bubble Guts' Johnson (centre), Messing Officer with Headquarters, RAAF Northern Command ..

Garoka, New Guinea, 1945. Squatting on the ground, Wing Commander (Wg Cdr) Arthur Howard RAAF talks with some native Papuan porters and a child (centre). The man (left) has a gunny-sack on his back ..

Grottaglie, Italy. 1943. Portrait of Flight Lieutenant T. W. Jenkins of Sydney, NSW, Medical Officer of No. 3 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF, and he was the first Australian to set foot in Italy. He ..