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PAPUA. NEARING THE END OF THE PAPUAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST JAPAN. AUSTRALIAN AND AMERICAN TROOPS MOVING UP TOWARDS THE JAPANESE POSITIONS AT SANANANDA, THE LAST CENTRE OF JAPANESE RESISTANCE IN PAPUA. NATIVE BOYS CUT A PATH THROUGH THE LONG KUNAI GRASS, BUT EARLIER ALLIED TROOPS HAD HAD TO DRIVE THE JAPS FROM THE AREA. POSSIBLY BECAUSE OF SHORTAGES OF FOOD AND ILLINESS, JAP OPPOSITION HERE WAS NOT SO FEROCIOUS AS AT GONA AND BUNA. (NEGATIVE BY BOTTOMLEY).
PAPUA. NEARING THE END OF THE PAPUAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST JAPAN. AUSTRALIAN MACHINE GUNNERS TRY OUT A CAPTURED JAPANESE HEAVY MACHINE, CAPTURED IN THE FIGHTING AT SANANANDA. THE JAP CREW OF THE GUN HAD FL
PAPUA. NEARING THE END OF THE PAPUAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST JAPAN. NATIVE BOYS AND AMERICANS EXAMINE A CAPTURED 75MM. ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN, NEAR SANANANDA. AN AUSTRALIAN TAKES ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO M
PAPUA. NEARING THE END OF THE PAPUAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST JAPAN. EIGHT AUSTRALIANS PUSH A CAPTURED JAP TRAILER ACROSS AN IMPROVISED BRIDGE AT SANANANDA. USE OF THE TRAILER MADE EASIER THE TASK OF GETTING
BUNA, PAPUA. AT AN ADVANCED AMERICAN DRESSING STATION. WOUNDED BEING BROUGHT IN ON STRETCHERS ALONG A TRACK THROUGH THE KUNAI GRASS. THE BEARERS ARE PAPUAN NATIVES, FONDLY KNOWN AS FUZZY WUZZY ANGELS.
Soputa, Papua. December 1942. Three officers of the 7th Australian Division Headquarters standing in front of their quarters, a bush hut, with kunai grass on the roof and a path hewn from tree branche
PAPUA. ALLIED TROOPS ON THE MOVE FROM BUNA TO SANANANDA FORD A MUDDY RIVER CROSSING WITH THE AID OF NATIVE PAPUAN BEARERS.
