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Photograph 026831 Second World War, 1939-1945PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. A JAPANESE OBSERVATION POST IN A TREE WITH BUSH LADDER APPROACH. AN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER IS SEEN CLIMBING THE LADDER.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. A JAPANESE OBSERVATION POST IN A TREE WITH BUSH LADDER APPROACH. AN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER IS SEEN CLIMBING THE LADDER.
PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. A JAPANESE OBSERVATION POST IN A TREE WITH BUSH LADDER APPROACH. AN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER IS SEEN CLIMBING THE LADDER.

New Guinea. A soldier climbs up a ladder to an observation post built on the top of a tree 103 feet high. It is the highest point in the whole of the swamplands area.

Soputa, Papua. December 1942. The bottom of a ladder leading to an observation post at the top of a very tall tree in the jungle forward of Soputa.

Soputa, Papua. December 1942. A hurriedly constructed ladder of rope and small branches leading to an artillery observation post at the top of a tall tree.

Vosges, France. c. 1916. A French artilleryman climbing a ladder to his observation post established in a tree. The photograph was taken from the post. (Donor French Government)

PARI BEACH, PAPUA. 1942-07-20. A LITTLE EXERTION IS THE ONLY PRICE OF A COCONUT FOR THE AUSTRALIAN TROOPS IN NEW GUINEA. HERE A MEMBER OF THE 49TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION SEEN CLIMBING A TREE TO
