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PARATROOPS LAND AT NADZAB. AUSTRALIAN GUNNERS WITH THEIR WEAPONS DISMANTLED, AND THE PARTS ATTACHED TO PARACHUTES, WAIT FOR THE ORDER TO DON THEIR OWN PARACHUTES AND EQUIPMENT PRIOR TO JOINING THE PLANES WHICH FLEW THEM TO THE MARKHAM VALLEY WHERE THEY, AND THEIR GUNS, PARACHUTED TO COMPLETE THE RING ROUND LAE AND SALAMAUA. THE AUSTRALIANS ACHIEVED A FEAT NEVER BEFORE ATTEMPED IN THE PACIFIC.
PARATROOPS LAND AT NADZAB. GUNNER DONNELLY ADJUSTS LANCE-BOMBARDIER WEBB'S PARACHUTE BEFORE THE AUSTRALIAN AIRBORNE ARTILLERYMEN AND THEIR GUNS - DISMANTLED AND ATTACHED TO PARACHUTES - JOIN THE TRANS
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
LINED UP BEHIND THE GIANT TRANSPORT PLANES. WHICH CARRIED THEM TO THE MARKHAM VALLEY AMERICAN PARATROOPS AND AUSTRALIAN AIRBORNE ARTILLYMEN HAVE A FINAL CHECK OVER OF THEIR PARACHUTES AND EQUIPMENT.
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
Tsili Tsili, New Guinea. 5 September 1943. One of the fleet of American Douglas C47 transport planes that parachuted gun teams of the 2/4th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, and their 25 pou
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
