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Photograph 057506 Second World War, 1939-1945KAIAPIT, NEW GUINEA, 1943-09-22. SX1165 CORPORAL J.A. WILSON MM, 2/6TH AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT COMPANY, WHO WAS WOUNDED IN THE KAIAPIT ACTION.

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KAIAPIT, NEW GUINEA, 1943-09-22. SX1165 CORPORAL J.A. WILSON MM, 2/6TH AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT COMPANY, IN THE VILLAGE WITH THREE NATIVE CARRIERS AND A WOUNDED JAPANESE SOLDIER LYING ON A STRETCHER, WHO IS TO BE FLOWN BACK TO NADZAB FOR INTERROGATION.
KAIAPIT, NEW GUINEA, 1943-09-22. SX1165 CORPORAL J.A. WILSON MM, 2/6TH AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT COMPANY, WHO WAS WOUNDED IN THE KAIAPIT ACTION.

KAIAPIT, NEW GUINEA. 1943-09-22. THE BODY OF A DEAD JAPANESE SOLDIER IN KAIAPIT VILLAGE. OVER 200 JAPANESE WERE KILLED AND 50 WOUNDED BY MEMBERS OF THE 2/6TH AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT COMPANY IN THIS ACT

KAIAPIT, NEW GUINEA, 1943-09-22. TROOPS OF THE 2/6TH AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT COMPANY ON A JEEP DRIVING THROUGH KAIAPIT VILLAGE.

Kaiapit, New Guinea. Australian reinforcements arrive at the airstrip, flown in to assist the 2/6th Independent company AIF who had been attacked by a Japanese force planning to retake Nadzab.

KAIAPIT, NEW GUINEA, 1943-09-22. TROOPS OF THE 2/6TH AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT COMPANY DISPLAY CAPTURED JAPANESE FLAGS AFTER THE KAIAPIT ACTION.

KAIAPIT, NEW GUINEA, 1943-09-22. VX67599 SERGEANT A.L. MILLER OF THE 2/6TH AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT COMPANY, IN A JAPANESE BUNKER. HE CLEARED THESE BUNKERS WITH GRENADES, KILLING AT LEAST 3 JAPANESE SOL
