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Photograph OG1329 Second World War, 1939-1945NOEMFOOR ISLAND, DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 1944-07-02. RAAF OFFICERS AND AIRMEN WALKING INLAND TOWARDS THE KAMIRI AIRSTRIP AFTER LANDING WITH US FORCES.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
New Guinea. US troops push inland after landing on Noemfoor Island. Bomb crater in foreground.
NOEMFOOR ISLAND, DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 1944-07-02. RAAF OFFICERS AND AIRMEN WALKING INLAND TOWARDS THE KAMIRI AIRSTRIP AFTER LANDING WITH US FORCES.

Biak Island, Dutch New Guinea. US troops moving inland pass shell craters and burning fuel dump, a few minutes after their beach landing. Bombs burst in the distance.

PHILIPPINES. AFTER THE FIRST WAVE OF ALLIED TROOPS WENT ASHORE NORTH OF PALO ON LEYTE ISLAND, NO TIME WAS LOST IN LANDING HEAVY EQUIPMENT SO THAT THE TROOPS COULD PUSH INLAND.

NOEMFOOR ISLAND, DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 1944-07-02. US TROOPS WADING THROUGH WATER ACROSS A REEF DURING THE ALLIED LANDING.

NOEMFOOR ISLAND, DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 1944-07-03. US EQUIPMENT LANDING ON KAMIRI AIRSTRIP AFTER BEING DROPPED FROM A US ARMY AIR FORCE B-17 FLYING FORTRESS AIRCRAFT.

NOEMFOOR ISLAND, DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 1944-07-03. US EQUIPMENT LANDING ON KAMIRI AIRSTRIP AFTER BEING DROPPED FROM A US ARMY AIR FORCE B-17 FLYING FORTRESS AIRCRAFT.
