The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 by the US Army specifically to witness the ceremony. Note the local man working with a large heap of branches in the background. (Donor D. Atkinson)
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. 1943-02-02. 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 corne
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
Dobodura, New Guinea. 1943-02-02. Skin, finger nails and charred bones taken from a Japanese prisoner of war (POW) in the Gona area are laid out on a piece of cloth at the Headquarters of the 41st Div
Gona, New Guinea. Private A. A. Armstrong of Virginia, US, and Gunner E. Foster of Sydney, NSW, on a Japanese bicycle captured at Gona.
A group of five Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) sit on the floor of a building behind a hessian partition. They were captured by Australian troops during the battle of Gona Buna. Note their boots lin
