The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Sanananda. Note the makeshift bunks constructed of matting and timber attached to a tree. (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. 1943-02-02. 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
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
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
The interior of German underground sleeping quarters showing several bunks constructed out of timber and chicken wire. The 9th Battalion had cleared this area of German forces during fighting in Augu
