The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
New Guinea. An infantryman has to be assisted ashore by a comrade in the Allied landing on Morotai Island in the Moluccas. Being unable to pull right onto the beach the landing craft, infantry (LCI) had to put the men off in comparatively deep water.
New Guinea. LCI (landing craft, infantry), no. 578, following US Army Alligator amphibious tracked craft in the Allied landing on Morotai Island in the Moluccas. Being unable to get close into shore t
New Guinea. LCI (landing craft, infantry), no. 970, following US Army Alligator amphibious tracked craft in the Allied landing on Morotai Island in the Moluccas. Being unable to get close into shore t
LCI (landing craft, infantry) following US Army Alligator amphibious tracked craft in the Allied landing on Morotai Island in the Moluccas. Being unable to get close into shore the troops had to land
Because of a reef, landing craft were unable to reach the beach at Morotai. Men and machines had to traverse comparatively deep water and many tractors were bogged in the soft sand.
After the first wave of troops heavier equipment was brought ashore in the Allied landing on Morotai Island in the Moluccas including jeeps. The jeep, with chains fixed to its wheels, sank to its axle
Owing to a reef preventing the Allied landing craft pulling closer into the beach at Morotai Island in the Moluccas, large quantities of heavy equipment had to be towed ashore by a wire cable attached
