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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; ..

Bulldog-Wau Road, New Guinea. 1943-07-14. Road clearing at the twenty three mile point known as Mokka's Roost. Mokkas were small mites of the scabies family that burrowed under the soldiers' skin ..

Salamaua, New Guinea. 1943-09-20. V75540 Corporal S.C. Mulhall, 11th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, sitting in his bunk writes home from his new home on the isthmus. Note the occupied ..

Madang, New Guinea. 1944-06-17. Troops participating in the hop step and jump at a Tabloid sports meeting conducted by Headquarters 15TH Infantry Brigade within the Siar Plantation. VX135530 ..

Donadabu, New Guinea. 1943-07-26. Three members of the 61st Battalion collecting supplies which had been air dropped. Left to right: Privates A. Rush, G.Hallion and R.Geoghagan

Large group portrait of pilots and administrative staff of No. 77 Squadron RAAF assembled on and in front of one of the squadron’s Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk aircraft, at Gurney airstrip. Left to ..

Mubo-Salamaua, New Guinea. 1943-07-21. Private First Class L. Simon, United States Army, of Los Angeles with the Allied Supply Corps, leading a food line of native bearers across the Bitoi River ..

Ramu Valley, New Guinea. 1943-10-05. Members of A Company, 2/27th Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF, crossing the Surinam River

Milne Bay, New Guinea. 1944-04-05. The United States Army coastal tanker Y 18 taking on aviation fuel at the oil wharf. The shore fuel installation was manned by the 2nd Australian Bulk Petroleum ..

Lae, New Guinea. 1944-04-03. A section of Labu Inlet where the Port Moresby to Lae telegraph line crosses about 300 yards from the coconut palm on the left. The line was maintained by the 19th ..

Kaiapit, New Guinea. 1943-09-25. QX38647 Private H. J. Heagney of the 2/14th Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF, shows his rifle to a small native boy

Kokoda Trail, New Guinea. 1944-04-03. A tree being felled by a native to make way for signal lines under construction by the 23rd Line Section, 18th Australian Lines of Communication Area Signals. ..