The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Lae, New Guinea. In a frame made by the open bows of a beach landing craft and giant road-making machinery, artillery and jeeps move out across a beach north-west of Lae. This is some of the equipment which followed up the first wave of the Australians who had streamed inland to sever communications between Lae-Salamaua and the north-west.
LAE SALAMAUA ISOLATED. HEAVILY LADEN TRUCKS, JEEPS AND, IN FOREGROUND, AN ARTILLERY TRACTOR AND GUN MOVE FORWARD IN THE WAKE OF THE AUSTRALIANS WHO HAD MOVED INLAND AFTER HAVING LANDED NORTH WEST OF L
LAE SALAMAUA ISOLATED. THROBBING ACTIVITY ON A BEACH NORTH WEST OF LAE WHERE AN HOUR EARLIER THERE WAS NO SIGN OF WAR. MEN, JEEPS AND TRUCKS ARE MOVING FORWARD IN THE TRAIL OF THE AUSTRALIANS WHO WERE
LAE SALAMAUA ISOLATED. ON THIS BEACH, NORTH WEST OF LAE, 30 MINUTES BEFORE THE AUSTRALIANS LANDED THERE WAS NOT A MARK. THE AUSTRALIANS STREAMING INLAND FROM THE LANDING CRAFT QUICKLY LEFT THEIR MARK,
LAE SALAMAUA. ISOLATED. ONE OF THE BEACHES NORTH WEST OF LAE WHERE AUSTRALIAN TROOPS HAD MADE THEIR HAPPIEST LANDING OF THE NEW GUINEA WAR. HARD UP AGAINST THE BEACH IS A LANDING CRAFT FROM WHICH SOLD
LAE SALAMAUA ISOLATED. THROUGH A V FOR VICTORY MADE BY A DOOR IN THE BOW OF A BEACH LANDING CRAFT AND THE HULL, AUSTRALIANS STREAM ON TO THE BEACH AFTER THE LANDING NORTH WEST OF LAE.
Australians pouring out of the yawning bows of a beach landing craft north-west of Lae, part of the sea, land and air operations that resulted in the trapping of 20,000 Japanese.
