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1943-01-08. ALLIED ADVANCE ON BUNA. ALLIED TROOPS EXAMINING ONE OF TWO JAPANESE 3 INCH NAVAL GUNS USED BY THE ENEMY IN THEIR DEFENCE OF BUNA. THIS GUN WAS CAPTURED BY AUSTRALIANS ON THE AIRSTRIP AT ..

PAPUA. 8 JANUARY 1943. CAPTURED AIR-STRIP AT BUNA. JAPANESE LEFT BEHIND PLANES STRAFED BY ALLIED FIGHTERS. NOTE BULLET HOLES IN WING OF ZERO AIRCRAFT. THIS IS ONE OF THE NEW TYPE SQUARE WING ZERO

Dobodura, New Guinea. 1 January 1943. Corporal John Griffiths (seated in the jeep), Corporal Herbert (Herb) Burrow (standing on the wing, working under the raised inspection cover) and an ..

1943-01-14. PAPUA. BUNA. PTE. E.J. PICKETT OF BROKEN HILL, PTE. E. LISK OF QUEENSTOWN, SOUTH AUST. AND PTE. F.E. HOW OF STIRLING, SOUTH AUST, ENJOY A SPELL AFTER AN ALL NIGHT PATROL BEHIND JAPANESE ..

1942-12-23. PAPUA. SOPUTA. A WARD AT THE MAIN DRESSING STATION NEAR SOPUTA. (NEGATIVE BY G. SILK)

1942-12-17. PAPUA. FALL OF GONA. AUSTRALIANS WHO CLEANED OUT A POCKET OF JAPANESE IN THE FINAL ASSAULT ON GONA. THE FIVE DEAD JAPANESE IN THE FOREGROUND WERE KILLED BY A GRENADE THROWN BY AN ..

1942-12-18. NEW GUINEA. SISTER M. WALLACE OF BRISBANE, AN A.I.F. NURSE WITH PETER FOX, MASCOT OF A CASUALTY CLEARING STATION IN NEW GUINEA. SISTER WALLACE WAS IN THE NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES WITH ..

1942-12-28. PAPUA. SILHOUETTED AGAINST THE RISING SUN, AN AUSTRALIAN TANK MOVES THROUGH HEAVY FOLIAGE TO ATTACK THE JAPANESE POSITIONS AT BUNA. (NEGATIVE BY G. SILK)

1942-12-28. PAPUA. CAPT. N.G. WHITEHEAD WHO LED THE TANK ATTACK ON THE JAPANESE POSITIONS AT BUNA. HE IS SITTING ON HIS TANK WHICH HAS BEEN NAMED "CAPTAIN KIDD." ONE OTHER TANK WAS NAMED "CAPTAIN ..

1942-12-28. PAPUA. AN AMERICAN IS IN THE STRETCHER BEARER CREW BRINGING OUT A WOUNDED SOLDIER. THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN DURING THE ACTUAL FIGHTING. (NEGATIVE BY G. SILK)

MEMBERS OF CAPTAIN HUNT'S SURVEYING PARTY AT TOIEMONAPU, BOUGAINVILLE, NEW GUINEA, 1917-03. (DONATED BY MR. F.O. CUTLER.)

1942-12-28. PAPUA, GIROPA POINT AREA. AN AUSTRALIAN MANNED TANK FOLLOWED BY INFANTRYMEN IN ACTION LEADING TO THE FINAL ASSAULT ON BUNA. (NEGATIVE BY G. SILK.)