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Photograph 015530 Second World War, 1939-1945A "FLYING-FOX" IN OPERATION. IT CARRIES THE BUNCHES OF BANANAS FROM A PLANTATION ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE RAVINE TO THE PACKING SHED. (NEGATIVE BY BOTTOMLEY).

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A "FLYING-FOX" IN OPERATION. IT CARRIES BUNCHES OF BANANAS FROM A PLANTATION ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE RAVINE TO THE PACKING SHED.
A "FLYING-FOX" IN OPERATION. IT CARRIES THE BUNCHES OF BANANAS FROM A PLANTATION ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE RAVINE TO THE PACKING SHED. (NEGATIVE BY BOTTOMLEY).

EACH OF THESE BUNCHES OF BANANAS WEIGHED 82 LB. BUT THE GROWER CARRIED THEM WITH EASE FROM THE "FLYING-FOX" (IN THE BACKGROUND) TO THE PACKING SHED. (NEGATIVE BY BOTTOMLEY).

Private Rodney Rowe of Mackay, Qld, and of the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), samples a bunch of "captured" bananas from a plantation near a Viet Cong village during Operation En

New Guinea. Warrant Officer Vesper of Sydney, NSW, inspects bunches of bananas brought to market by native women. Standing beside him is Madeleine who does most of the buying.

New Guinea. Lieutenant Harry Riley of Charters Towers, Qld, Signalman George Taylor of St Kilda, Vic, and Private Arthur Gross of Charters Towers, Qld, coming back to camp carrying coconuts and bunche

Numa Numa Plantation, south of Wakunai, East Coast Bougainville. TMG Lifeskills Patrol on the way from Arawa to Wakunai, moving in the vicinity of a Copra smoking shed in the vast Numa-Numa Copra and