The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Dutch New Guinea. Driver Don Trotman of Townsville, Qld, cools off under a palm tree with a 'Kalapa' (coconut). The milky juice of these nuts is very similar to ginger beer.
Dutch New Guinea. A Jeep, no. 96, crossing a swampland by means of a 'corduroy' road. These roads are made of coconut palm trunks and are the only successful method of making a road across the vast sw
Dutch New Guinea. Shelled coconut palm trunk served as a telephone post on Biak. Corporal M. Weller of Seattle, who's in the air, is laying the wires.
Wakde Island, Dutch New Guinea. A cautious advance by United States troops on the coconut palm shattered foreshore of Wakde Island.
PARI BEACH, PAPUA. 1942-07-20. A LITTLE EXERTION IS THE ONLY PRICE OF A COCONUT FOR THE AUSTRALIAN TROOPS IN NEW GUINEA. IN THIS PICTURE TWO AUSSIES HAVE REACHED THE TOP OF THE TREE AND ARE ABOUT TO T
Dutch New Guinea. A US soldier surveys the coconut palm trees, a scene of desolation after the Allied attack on Biak Island. The landing was preceded by heavy naval bombardment.
NOEMFOOR ISLAND, DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 1944-07-03. A PARATROOPER OF THE 503RD PARACHUTE REGIMENT US ARMY CAUGHT ON A BLASTED COCONUT PALM BESIDE KAMIRI AIRSTRIP. HE WAS LATER RESCUED.
