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THE GRAVE OF FOUR AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN "SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA". ON THE GRAVE IS A PIECE OF MATERIAL FROM THEIR PLANE ON WHICH IS WRITTEN "HERE LIE THE BODIES OF W. H. R. CAMPBELL, F. EKINS, A. SHAKESPEARE, A. H. WOODS, WHO DIED ON THE DAWN OF THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE JAPANESE-GERMAN WAR". NATIVES BROUGHT IN THE BODIES AND, AS THERE WAS NO TIMBER AVAILABLE, FOR COFFINS, THEY CUT UP SOME OF THEIR TREASURED CANOES.
ALLIED AIRMEN IN NEW GUINEA. THREE AUSSIE AIRMEN WATCH NATIVES MAKING A CANOE. THE NATIVES PRIZE THESE HIGHLY, BUT AFTER THEY HAD BROUGHT IN THE BODIES OF FOUR AUSTRALIANS KILLED IN A PLANE CRASH THEY
AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN AT A RAAF STATION SOMEWHERE IN NORTH AUSTRALIA, FILL IN THEIR TIME OFF DUTY BY SAILING OUTRIGGER CANOES. HERE THEY ARE PUSHING A CANOE ACROSS A CORAL BEACH TO THE SEA. (NEGATIVE BY H
MILNE BAY, PAPUA. C. 1944-02. RAAF AIRMEN AND LOCAL PAPUAN NATIVES FEEDING TIMBER CUT FROM THE JUNGLE, TO SAWS. THE OFFICER IN CHARGE IS FLYING OFFICER TAMBY-WHITE OF WINTON, QLD (WITH SUN HELMET).
AMBON ISLAND. 1945-09-22. LOCAL NATIVES IN THEIR CANOES CLUSTERED AROUND THE RAN VESSEL HMAS GLENELG WHICH BROUGHT MEMBERS OF 33RD INFANTRY BRIGADE INTO THE AREA TO TAKE OVER FROM THE JAPANESE.
Dutch New Guinea. When the Aussies out on patrol through the swamp come to a river they employ the local Kaya-Kaya natives to ferry them across in their native 'praoes' (canoes). They also transport j
Early in the morning of 5th April, in South Bougainville, a sizeable enemy force attacked the HQ 25th Australian Infantry Battalion and a platoon of "C" Company. Sixty men were cut off from their comm
