The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
PAPUA. GONA. AN AUSTRALIAN OFFICER, WHO HAS JUST CRAWLED IN AFTER LYING EIGHT DAYS WOUNDED NEAR JAPANESE LINES, RECEIVED TREATMENT. HE WAS ONLY A FEW FEET AWAY FROM JAPANESE DUG-OUTS AND MANAGED TO REACH THE AUSTRALIAN LINES WHEN THE JAPS WITHDREW FROM THE DUG-OUTS FOLLOWING AN INTENSIVE ALLIED BOMBING RAID. (NEGATIVE BY G. SILK).
PAPUA - GONA. AN AUSTRALIAN OFFICER, WHO HAS JUST CRAWLED IN AFTER LYING EIGHT DAYS WOUNDED NEAR JAPANESE LINES, RECEIVES MEDICAL TREATMENT. HE WAS ONLY A FEW FEET AWAY FROM THE JAPANESE DUG-OUTS AND
This picture shows what bombing and artillery fire made the jungle look like, yet our men were living in dug-outs covered with heavy timber and a few painted tent flaps. On the day the artist sketched
NEW GUINEA. JAPANESE BOMB AN AMERICAN FIELD HOSPITAL. PTE. M.J. ALLEN, OF SYRACUSE NEW YORK, HAD A LUCKY ESCAPE WHEN A BOMB FELL ONLY A FEW FEET AWAY. (NEGATIVE BY G. SILK).
New Guinea. November 1942. Goodenough Island in the D'Entrecasteaux Group, lying off the South East corner of New Guinea seen from the air. On 25 August 1942 the Japanese landed an estimated 300 troop
PAPUA. BUNA. ARTILLERY CLEARS WAY FOR INFANTRY. NINETY FEET ABOVE THE GROUND A FORWARD OBSERVATION OFFICER AT BUNA WATCHES THE FALL OF SHELLS FROM AN AUSTRALIAN 25 POUNDER BATTERY. HIS POST IS 300 YAR
Sangara, Papua, 1942-11-18. An officer of 2/4th Field Ambulance, possibly NX473 Major Ian Firth Vickery, cuts open a potato-like vegetable that he and his colleagues have dug up from the garden of the
