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PARATROOPS LAND AT NADZAB. AUSTRALIAN OFFICERS WHO WITH OTHER AUSTRALIAN AIRBORNE ARTILLERY LANDED IN THE MARKHAM VALLEY, AND WITH AMERICAN PARATROOPS TRAPPED THE REMNANTS OF THE FOUR JAP DIVISIONS AT LAE AND SALAMAUA. LEFT TO RIGHT:- LT. L.A. CLAYTON OF VICTORIA, LT. F.E. ROSS OF N.S.W., LT. R.W. ARMSTRONG OF NEW YORK (LIAISON OFFICER), LT. J. PEARSON OF VIC., AND LT. FAULKNER, VIC. MANY AUSTRALIANS HAD BEEN TRAINING FOR ONLY 14 DAYS AS PARATROOPS.
ALLIED PARATROOPERS INVADE THE MARKHAM VALLEY. ONE OF THE LONG LINE OF GIANT TRANSPORT PLANES WHICH CARRIED AMERICAN PARATROOPS AND AUSTRALIAN AIRBORNE ARTILLERYMEN TO THE MARKHAM VALLEY. THERE THEY T
PARATROOPS LAND AT NADZAB. GENERAL MACARTHUR TALKS TO U.S. PARATROOPS OFFICER LAST SUNDAY SHORTLY BEFORE THE GENERAL IN A FLYING FORTRESS LED THE AERIAL ARMADA TO THE MARKHAM VALLEY. THESE AMERICAN PA
PARATROOPS LAND AT NADZAB. THREE SMILING AMERICAN PARATROOPERS, CARRYING FULL EQUIPMENT READY TO JOIN ONE OF THE NUMEROUS PLANES WHICH FLEW THEM AND OTHER AMERICAN PARATROOPERS AND AUSTRALIAN AIRBORNE
PARATROOPS LAND AT NADZAB. U.S. PARATROOPS PACKING THEIR EQUIPMENT LAST SUNDAY BEFORE BOARDING ONE OF THE NUMEROUS TRANSPORT PLANES WHICH LED BY GENERAL MACARTHUR IN A FLYING FORTRESS, TOOK THEM TO TH
NEW GUINEA. NADZAB AREA. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS CHAT TO AMERICAN PARATROOPS WHO LANDED AT NADZAB. LEFT TO RIGHT - SAPPER C. MACKENZIE OF WILLOUGHBY, N.S.W.; SAPPER RON BROWN OF BULLI, N.S.W. SAPPER ALLAN H
Tsili Tsili, New Guinea, 5 September 1943. Paratroops of the 2/4th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, who are about to take off for a parachute landing on Nadzab with their 25 pounder guns, i
