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Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1944-01-11. An aerial view of the Royal Australian Air Force Marine Section with three Catalina aircraft parked on the hardstanding

Milne Bay, Papua, 1944-03-18. Front view of the main Administration Hut at the base occupied by the Headquarters (HQ) of RAAF Northern Command. The sign on the tree trunk at right reads: "Central ..

Los Negros Island, Admiralty Group. c. 1943. Fifteen natives moving along in a large outrigger canoe

Los Negros Island, Admiralty Group. c. 1944. HMAS Australia, on the left, with United States cruiser USS Canberra on the right. USS Canberra had formerly been USS Pittsburgh but was renamed USS ..

Los Negros Island, Admiralty Group. c. 1944. Royal Australian Navy cruiser HMAS Australia anchored off the island

Milne Bay, Papua. c. 1943. A photograph taken from HMAS Broome showing fuel being transferred from a grounded tanker

Milne Bay, Papua, 1944. Large group portrait of the members of No. 5 Base Squadron RAAF at the base occupied by the Headquarters (HQ) of RAAF Northern Command

Goodenough Island, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua, 1944-04-01. Interior of the airmen's ward of No. 5 Medical Receiving Station at the Headquarters of No. 71 Wing RAAF. The ward is a thatched hut ..

Goodenough Island, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua, 1944-04-01. Interior of the officers' ward of No. 5 Medical Receiving Station at the Headquarters of No. 71 Wing RAAF. Several of the ward's camp ..

Finisterre Range, New Guinea. 1944-01. A wounded soldier is carried by local natives past a Shaggy Ridge patrol. A shot from the Department of Information film 'Jungle Patrol'

Probably Goodenough Island, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua, 1944. A jeep modified to serve as an ambulance, possibly for No. 5 Medical Receiving Station RAAF. The vehicle has been fitted with a ..

Bisiatabu, New Guinea. 1943-07-01. Members of the 1st Papuan Infantry Battalion during a training exercise in which a grass hut containing an imaginary enemy is set on fire by means of a burning ..