The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NG2191 Sergeant J B McAdam, New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, and Damien Parer, Official Cinematographer, observe Japanese movements from a secret tree top observation post above Nuk Nuk. This post was established by the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles and was also used by the New Guinea Air Warning Wireless Company (NGAWW). It was manned for a six week period by Corporal Ross Kirkwood, who narrowly escaped capture by the Japanese. (Film still)
View from the observation post above Nuk Nuk, manned by members of the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles. The cleared area in the centre is the airstrip. Salamaua itself is situated on the Flat Isthmus link
SALAMAUA AREA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-08. MEMBERS OF NEW GUINEA VOLUNTEER RIFLES, BEARDED AND CAMOUFLAGED, MAN A SECRET OBSERVATION POST ABOVE NUK NUK. LEFT TO RIGHT: NG2423 RIFLEMAN G. R. ARCHER; NG2192 RI
SALAMAUA AREA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-08. NG2423 RIFLEMAN G. R. ARCHER, NEW GUINEA VOLUNTEER RIFLES, OBSERVES MOVEMENTS OF THE JAPANESE FROM AN OBSERVATION POST IN A LOFTY TREE ABOVE NUK NUK. (FILM STILL).
PAPUA. GEOFF WHITE, NEW GUINEA VOLUNTEER RIFLES, IN CHARGE OF NATIVE LABOUR ON THE SALAMAUA FRONT, WITH HIS NATIVE BOY, KUMU. (NEGATIVE BY DAMIEN PARER)
NEW GUINEA. MEMBERS OF B COMPANY, NEW GUINEA VOLUNTEER RIFLES, PROUDLY DISPLAY A JAPANESE FLAG THEY CAPTURED AT MUBO ON 21 JULY 1942. PERSONNEL ARE (RANK IS RIFLEMAN UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE) BACK ROW
Sergeant Frank J Parmiter of Coburg, Vic, and Corporal Ivan G Pritchard, of Kensington, NSW, spotters with the New Guinea Air Warning Wireless Company (NGAWW), at work beside their AWA radio at an obs
