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, RECEIVES MEDICAL TREATMENT. HE WAS ONLY A FEW FEET AWAY FROM THE 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, RECEIVED TREATMENT. HE WAS ONLY A FEW FEET AWAY FROM JAPANESE DUG-OUTS AND MANAGED TO RE
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
PAPUA. FALL OF GONA. THESE DIGGERS WERE THE GUN-CREW WHICH KILLED 18 JAPS. AS THE JAPANESE TRIED TO RUSH OUT OF GONA. THEY ARE LOADING UP MACHINE-GUN BELTS IN READINESS FOR THE JAP'S NEXT MOVE. LEFT T
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).
An Australian soldier wounded in fighting in the Gona area receives treatment before being taken to a dressing station. This photograph was taken less than one hundred yards from Japanese positions.
An Australian soldier wounded in fighting in the Gona area receives treatment before being taken to a dressing station. This photograph was taken less than one hundred yards from Japanese positions.
