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

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. Shown: Flight Lieutenant ..

PORT MORESBY. A GROUP OF PILOTS OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY AIR CORP AIRACOBRA 40TH PURSUIT SQUADRON. (NEGATIVE BY D. PARER.)

SGT. K.P. HILL TALKS WITH TROOPER J.J. FITZGERALD WHILE THE INDEPENDENT LIGHT HORSE ARE ON MANOEUVRES. (NEGATIVE BY PARER)

CAPT. LEWIS B. MENG OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA, LEADER OF THE SQUADRON OF AIRACOBRAS, WHO IS HIMSELF CREDITED WITH ONE ZERO CONFIRMED ONE PROBABLE, AND HAS DONE GROUND STRAFING AT LAE, WHERE THE ATTACKING ..

JAPANESE AIR RAID ON PORT MORESBY. BOMBS BURST ALONG THE WATERFRONT

A GROUP OF THE SURVIVORS OFF THE "MACDHUI" SUNK IN PORT MORESBY ON 18 JUNE 1942. THE SEAMEN WERE ABLE TO SAVE ONLY THE CLOTHES THEY WERE WEARING BUT NEVERTHELESS THEY COULD RAISE A SMILE. MOST OF ..

1942-08-06. WITH THE ALLIED TROOPS IN NEW GUINEA. RIFLEMAN HARRY HELTON, WHO KNOWS AS MUCH ABOUT THE WILDS OF NEW GUINEA AND OF THE NATIVES AS ANY MAN. OF IRISH-SCOTCH-AUSTRALIAN DESCENT HE HAS ..

NEW GUINEA. 1942-08-06. NATIVES PADDLING THEIR CANOE ON THE LAKEKAMU RIVER, TAKING STORES TO KANGA FORCE

1942-08-29. ACCOMPANYING THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN PATROL THAT REACHED KOKODA, DAMIEN PARER, OFFICIAL CINEMAPHOTOGRAPHER, (RIGHT) MEETS HIS BROTHER CYRIL, WHO HAS BEEN IN NEW GUINEA FOR MANY YEARS. ..

1942-08-28. PAPUA. SALAMAUA. FIRST PICTURE OF SALAMAUA SINCE IT WAS OCCUPIED BY THE JAPANESE. (NEGATIVE BY D. PARER)

Rabaul, New Guinea, 1945-10. A long thatch-roofed hut stands on the shores of a bay at a former Japanese prisoner-of-war (POW) camp for captured Indian soldiers of the 1st Hyderabad Regiment. A ..