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Photograph 026624 Second World War, 1939-1945MILNE BAY, PAPUA, 1942-09. PETROL DRUMS AND AN INVASION BARGE BLASTED BY THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE WHEN THE JAPANESE ATTEMPTED TO LAND AT MILNE BAY.

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MILNE BAY, PAPUA. 1942-09. JAPANESE BARGES THAT WERE WRECKED AND SMASHED BY THE RAAF WHEN THE JAPANESE ATTEMPTED TO LAND AT MILNE BAY.
MILNE BAY, PAPUA, 1942-09. PETROL DRUMS AND AN INVASION BARGE BLASTED BY THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE WHEN THE JAPANESE ATTEMPTED TO LAND AT MILNE BAY.

MILNE BAY, PAPUA. 1942-09. TYPE OF DENSE JUNGLE FORESHORE THAT JAPANESE LANDED THEIR BARGES ON IN THEIR UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT AT LANDING AT MILNE BAY. WRECKED BARGE IN FOREGROUND.

MILNE BAY, PAPUA, 1942-09. MULLINS HARBOUR, MILNE BAY, WHERE THE JAPANESE ATTEMPTED TO LAND.

MILNE BAY, PAPUA, 1942-09. TWO BARGES, USED BY THE JAPANESE IN THEIR UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO LAND AT MILNE BAY, RIDDLED BY GUN FIRE FROM KITTYHAWK FIGHTER PLANES OF AN AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON.

MILNE BAY, PAPUA. 1942-09. ONE OF THE BARGES, USED BY THE JAPANESE IN THEIR UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO LAND AT MILNE BAY, GROUNDED ON THE FORESHORE AND WRECKAGE OF JAPANESE EQUIPMENT ON BEACH. NOTE WATER
MILNE BAY, PAPUA. 1942-09. ONE OF THE JAPANESE INVASION BARGES THAT WAS RUN ASHORE AT MILNE BAY AMID VERY THICK FOLIAGE IN THE ABORTIVE LANDING BY THE JAPS.
