The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NEW GUINEA. MOUNT TAMBU. 1ST CLASS PRIVATE EARL ANDERSON AND SERGEANT EUGENE ADER, BOTH OF PORTLAND, OREGON, PLAYING CHECKERS IN BETWEEN BOMBARDING JAPANESE POSITIONS ON MOUNT TAMBU AND THE KOMIATUM TRACK. THE WHITE CHECKERS MEN ARE PISTOL BULLETS, AND BLACK MEN WOOD CHIPS FROM AN AMMUNITION BOX, THE BOARD A BOX END, AND THE SEATS AND TABLE EMPTY SHELL CASES. (NEGATIVE BY G. SHORT).
NEW GUINEA. MOUNT TAMBU. THIS AMERICAN FIELD PIECE, IN PARTS WEIGHTING 100 TO 250 POUNDS, WAS CARRIED OVER THE PRECIPITOUS LABABIA RIDGE, FROM NASSAU BAY TO MOUNT TAMBU, TO BOMBARD THE JAPANESE POSITI
NEW GUINEA. MOUNT TAMBU FIGHTING. AN AMERICAN OBSERVATION POST ON THE SIDE OF MOUNT TAMBU. IN THE POST THE MUD WAS EIGHTEEN INCHES DEEP. LEFT TO RIGHT:- SGT. ROB. TOBEY, OF EUGENE, OREGON, SGT. DANIEL
NEW GUINEA. MOUNT TAMBU. SGT. WILLIAM ROOF, OF MARYVILLE, CALIFORNIA, AND SGT. WIN. BEATTY, OF PORTLAND, OREGON, PREPARING THEIR MEAL AT A CAMP THEY MADE ON MOUNT TAMBU BY STRAPPING THEIR GROUND SHEET
NEW GUINEA. MOUNT TAMBU. HEADQUARTERS OF AN AMERICAN BATTERY ON MOUNT TAMBU, WHICH HAS PROVED OF INVALUABLE HELP TO THE ALLIED TROOPS IN THIS AREA. CORPORAL JOHN GOODWIN OF IDAHO FALLS AND CORPORAL VI
Mount Tambu, New Guinea. Australian soldiers building an ammunition dump on Mount Tambu to enable Japanese positions on the Mount and the Komiatum Track to be put under fire.
NEW GUINEA. MOUNT TAMBU. LIVING QUARTERS MADE OF GROUND SHEETS SUSPENDED ON PIECES OF TIMBER AT AN AMERICAN ARTILLERY BATTERY IN THE HEART OF THE JUNGLE. WRITING HOME UNDER DIFFICULTIES IS 1ST CLASS P
