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OWEN STANLEY RANGES, NEW GUINEA. A NATIVE VILLAGE IN THE JUNGLE COUNTRY THAT IS THE BATTLEGROUND FOR AUSTRALIANS AND JAPANESE TROOPS IN THEIR STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF PAPUA. THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN A SHORT WHILE BEFORE AUSTRALIAN TROOPS LAUNCHED AN ATTACK AGAINST JAPANESE FORCES IN THE KOKODA AREA. (PHOTOGRAPHER DAMIEN PARER).
OWEN STANLEY RANGES, NEW GUINEA. SCENES IN A NATIVE VILLAGE AT EORA CREEK, IN THE JUNGLE COUNTRY THAT IS THE BATTLEGROUND FOR AUSTRALIAN AND JAPANESE TROOPS IN THEIR STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF PAPUA. SOL
OWEN STANLEY RANGES, NEW GUINEA. AUSTRALIAN PRIVATES E.L. FLOWER AND E.O. MOREY HAVE A CIGARETTE DURING A BREAK IN THE JUNGLE FIGHTING AGAINST THE JAPANESE IN THE KOKODA AREA. MOREY IS FROM WA. (PHOTO
OWEN STANLEY RANGES, NEW GUINEA. CORPORAL H. G. EVANS AND SGT. L. R. MARTORANA OF THE A.M.F. AT A NATIVE VILLAGE SHORTLY AFTER THEIR UNIT HAS CLASHED WITH THE JAPANESE IN THE KOKODA AREA. (PHOTOGRAPHE
PAPUA, NEW GUINEA, 1942-10. MEN OF THE 2/33RD AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION MARCHING THROUGH THE SMALL NATIVE VILLAGE OF NAURO ON THEIR WAY THROUGH THE OWEN STANLEY RANGES TO KOKODA. NOTE EACH MAN HAS
PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-10. MEN OF THE 2/33RD AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION MARCHING THROUGH THE SMALL NATIVE VILLAGE OF NAURO ON THEIR WAY THROUGH THE OWEN STANLEY RANGES TO KOKODA.
EORA CREEK, PAPUA. MELBOURNE CORPORAL J. A. CANTY OF THE A.M.F. 39TH BATTALION JUST BEFORE GOING INTO ACTION AGAINST THE JAPANESE AT ISURAVA IN THE KOKODA AREA. (PHOTOGRAPHER DAMIEN PARER).
