The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
New Guinea. A jeep negotiates a 'corduroy' road across a swamp. The only successful way of building a road in this type of country. The road is made by placing coconut logs across the swamp, and needs constant attention. The censor has deleted the number from the jeep.
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. A hurried bridge is made from coconut logs to help a jeep no. 130647 across a jungle stream. The censor has blocked out the unit marking from the grille.
CEYLON. 1942-06. A 6TH DIVISION ROAD BLOCK ON A COUNTRY ROAD MADE WITH CONCRETE FILLED HALF 44 GALLON DRUMS AND COCONUT PALM LOGS.
New Guinea. When Gunner (Gnr) Jack Mackney of Casino, NSW, and Gnr Syd Prisk of Willow Tree, NSW, wanted to clear a small tract of land to erect a tent, they borrowed a native plough belonging to 'Wak
SANANANDA AREA, PAPUA. FORDING A MUDDY SWAMP WITH NATIVE PAPUAN BEARERS. THIS IS THE TYPE OF COUNTRY AUSTRALIANS PLOUGHED THROUGH ON THE WAY FROM BUNA TO SANANANDA.
With the advent of the rainy season in Korea, the problem of road maintenance becomes acute. Most of the highways through the Commonwealth Division area are laid over the soft soil fo the paddy fields