The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Papuan natives assisting men of the 2/6th Australian Independent Company to unload their equipment from the 5th US Army Air Force (USAAF) C-47-DL transport plane ("Maxine" Serial Number 41-18585) in which they have been flown from Port Moresby, as a preliminary move in the allied coastal advance on Buna. On 16th October 1942, weeks after this image was taken, the aircraft “Maxine” crashed whilst delivering supplies to Australian Army soldiers on the Kokoda Trail with the loss of all crew. In the War Graves Maintenance Details Unit War Diary for New Guinea [September 1943 - November 1944], it was noted that Cpl Hince of the Aust War Graves Maintenance Details Unit visited the scene of the crash in March 1944 and located two American and two Australian bodies. The Australian bodies were removed to Bomana War Cemetery in Port Moresby and identified as N38353 Pte Keith Thomas Sullivan, and N21922 Pte Joseph Thomas Waters, both of the 53rd Australian Infantry Battalion.
Members of the 2/6th Australian Independent Company alighting from a 5th US Army Air Force (USAAF) C-47-DL transport plane ("Maxine" Serial Number 41-18585) on a rough runway on the shores of Collingw
Informal portrait of NX129455 Private (Pte) Leslie Thomas Bastock, 55/53rd Battalion, of Marrickville, NSW. A machine operator prior to enlistment he embarked from Port Moresby, New Guinea on 21 July
PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1944-08-05. AUSTRALIAN AND ALLIED SERVICE PERSONNEL INSPECTING GRAVES AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE OPENING CEREMONY AT THE BOMANA WAR CEMETERY.
Studio portrait of NX117979 Private (Pte) Edgar James Gentle, 2/9 Infantry Battalion, from Coffs Harbour, NSW. Pte Gentle enlisted on 21 September 1942 and died of wounds in the Buna area, Papua, on 2
WANIGELA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. MEMBERS OF THE 3RD BATTALION, 128TH REGIMENT 32ND U.S. DIVISION AND 2/6TH AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT COMPANY ALIGHTING FROM TRANSPORT PLANES AFTER BEING FLOWN IN FROM PORT M
BOMANA, NEW GUINEA. 1943-11-08. VX45793 SERGEANT G. H. RALPH (LEFT), NCO IN CHARGE AND AN ENGINEER N228327 SAPPER J. F. DAY DOING MAINTENANCE ON THE BOMANA PUMPING STATION EQUIPMENT. THIS UNIT SUPPLIE
