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NEW GUINEA. NATIVE CARRIERS CLIMB A ROPE LADDER ON GNEISENAU POINT IN THE KAPUGARA RIVER AREA. THERE IS A SHEER DROP OF 100 FEET BELOW THE LADDER.
New Guinea. Owing to the rough nature of the country in the region of Gneisenau Point in the Kapugara River area, a rope ladder had to be constructed to enable the troops to climb up the face of the c
Upper Ramu Valley, New Guinea. Up the final stages of a 200 feet sheer cliff in the tough Finisterre Ranges are Lieutenant F. Watt of Preston, Vic, and Private J. Summers of East Kew, Vic, using a rop
UMI RIVER, NEW GUINEA. 1943-09-29. A DETACHMENT OF THE PAPUAN INFANTRY BATTALION AND NATIVE CARRIERS CROSSING THE RIVER WITH THE AID OF A HAND ROPE.
New Guinea. A soldier climbs up a ladder to an observation post built on the top of a tree 103 feet high. It is the highest point in the whole of the swamplands area.
PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. 1942-08. ONE OF THE MAJOR PROBLEMS OF THE CAMPAIGN IN NEW GUINEA IS THE TRANSPORT OF SUPPLIES AND NATIVE CARRIERS HAVE TO BE EMPLOYED TO TRAVERSE THE NARROW PATHS THROUGH THE VALLEY
Aitape Sector, New Guinea. War correspondent John Scarlett of Sydney, NSW, helps out the troops in a river crossing on the advance up the coast near But. First across the flooded Ninahau River, he str
