068605 Accession Number: 068605

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New Guinea, Finschhafen area, 1943-10-30. A transport company stack stores which were dumped during the night at a spot near scarlet beach. Recently three Japanese barges landed at Scarlet Beach, two were sunk and the other claimed as sunk off the shore. Fiftyeight jap dead were counted.

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Accession Number
068605
Photographer
Captain Norman Brown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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