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MILNE BAY, NEW GUINEA, 1943-04-14. THE GRAVE OF SQUADRON LEADER P.B. TURNBULL, DFC. IN THE MILNE BAY WAR CEMETERY. SQUADRON LEADER TURNBULL, THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF NO 76 SQUADRON, WAS KILLED ..

1943-04-14. NEW GUINEA. MILNE BAY. DECORATIONS FOR FUZZY-WUZZIES. NEARLY THREE THOUSAND NATIVES HELD A FEAST AT MILNE BAY AFTER SIX OF THEIR MEMBERS RECEIVED MEDALS FOR LOYAL SERVICE DURING THE ..

Fanning Island. 7 September 1914. Some of the more delicate instruments in the Engine Room of the Pacific Cable Board on Fanning Island after German Marines tried to destroy them with axes. The ..

1943-04-14. NEW GUINEA. WAR CEMETERY AT MILNE BAY. GRAVE OF CORPORAL J.A. FRENCH, V.C. CORPORAL FRENCH WON THE FIRST V.C. IN THE NEW GUINEA CAMPAIGN. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)

1943-04-14. NEW GUINEA. MOSQUITO CONTROL. FIVE HUNDRED ACRES OF WATER-LOGGED GROUND WILL BE DRAINED BY THIS CHANNEL. FIFTY NATIVE BOYS WILL COMPLETE THE WORK IN SIX WEEKS. IN 1942-12, MALARIA ..

1943-04-16. NEW GUINEA. MILNE BAY. BEAUFORT BOMBERS PRACTICE AT MILNE BAY. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)

1943-04-16. NEW GUINEA. MILNE BAY, PHOTOGRAPHED FROM A BOMBER. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)

1943-05-07. NEW GUINEA. MILNE BAY. AN ALLIED VESSEL HIT DURING THE 1943-04-14, JAPANESE RAID ON MILNE BAY. PICTURE SHOWS SOME OF THE CREW. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)

1943-05-07. NEW GUINEA. MILNE BAY. AN ALLIED VESSEL WAS HIT DURING THE 1943-04-14, JAPANESE RAID ON MILNE BAY. PICTURE SHOWS A HOLE IN THE SIDE OF THE VESSEL. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN)

1943-03-03. THE G.O.C. NEW GUINEA FORCE ADDRESSING ONE OF THE NATIVE CONSTABLES AFTER HAVING LR PRESENTED HIM WITH A LARGE SILVER MEDAL FOR LOYAL SERVICE, AND THANKING HIM FOR HIS WORK. ON ONE SIDE ..

1943-03-10. NEW GUINEA. QUICK CONCENTRATION OF MEN AND GUNS BY AIR WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEFEAT OF THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON WAU. THIS PHOTO SHOWS TRANSPORT PLANES FLYING ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS ..

1943-03-22. NORTHERN AUSTRALIA. THE RAAF BUILDS ITS OWN AERODROMES. THE BATTLE OF THE BISMARCK SEA HAS PROVED BEYOND ALL DOUBT THE EFFICIENCY OF AIR POWER IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST JAPAN. ONE OF THE ..