The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Soputa, New Guinea. 1943-02-02. Exterior of a makeshift stockade used to house Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) captured in the Gona and Sanananda areas. Note the guard seated on a platform at a corner of the enclosure and the walls constructed from posts of varying lengths. (Donor D. Atkinson)
Soputa, New Guinea. 1943-01-31. Interior of a stockade used to house Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) as viewed from the guard's platform on the stockade wall. The Japanese were captured at Gona and S
Soputa, New Guinea. 1943-02-02. Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) captured at Gona and Sanananda rest on the ground and on makeshift beds under a thatched shelter in a stockade. (Donor D. Atkinson)
Soputa, New Guinea. 1943-01-31. Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) captured by the 163rd Infantry Regiment, 41st Division, US Army, line up against a wall on the inside of a stockade. There are about th
SOPUTA, NEW GUINEA. 1944-04-17. A SECTION OF THE SOPUTA WAR CEMETERY. THE CEMETERY CONTAINS AUSTRALIAN GRAVES FROM THE GONA, SANANANDA AND BUNA BATTLE AREAS. (JOINS NO.72448).
Sanananda, New Guinea. 1943-02-02. Two Japanese prisoner of war (POW) officers captured at Gona stand together during the cremation of Japanese killed at Sanananda. They had been brought to the scene
Soputa, Papua. December 1942. The Officers' Mess, New Guinea style. Officers of the 7th Australian Division seated at a bush table during a meal in their mess in the jungle near Soputa. The table and
