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Goodenough Island, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua. July 1943. RAAF personnel buying supplies for the kitchens from local natives. No. 79 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF personnel, left to right: 132318 Aircraftman 1 (AC1) W. P. Chambers, Messman; 74302 AC1 E. E. Hill, Messman; 1492 Flight Sergeant W. R. Hall, Catering and Messing Officer; 51727 Leading Aircraftman H. P. (Charles) Turner, ACH; 132198 AC1 B. (Barney) Lyons, Cook; 420602 Corporal (Cpl) D. J. (Doug) Sayer, Pay Clerk; unidentified; unidentified; unidentified; 51858 Pilot Officer W. A. James, Signals Officer; 33621 Cpl J. (Jack) Cook, Mess Steward.
Goodenough Island, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua. July 1943. No. 79 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF personnel trading for local garden produce with local natives. No. 79 Squadron personnel, left to right: u
Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, New Guinea. 17 June 1944. Group portrait of personnel of Headquarters Section No. 1, No. 79 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF on Momote airfield. Back row, left to right: 53330 L
At Sea. 11 August 1943. No. 79 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF personnel, transport, equipment and stores crammed on board a US Army landing craft, en route from Goodenough Island, D'Entrecasteaux Islands to
At Sea. 11 August 1943. On board a US landing craft, mechanised (LCM) in transit from Goodenough Island in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands to Kiriwina in the Trobriand Islands, Papua. Personnel of No. 79
No. 79 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF personnel with local people in the Squadron's camp in Momote plantation at Southeast Point. Standing, left to right: 122441 Sergeant J. J. (Jack) Laverty, Non-Commissio
Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands, Papua. 21 August 1943. No. 79 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF personnel on the morning after their first night's bivouac on Kiriwina, having been transported by US Army landing c
