150849 Accession Number: 150849

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Port Moresby, New Guinea. October 1942. The funeral of "New York Times" war correspondent, Byron Darnton, together with Lieutenant A. B. Fahnstock, in command of small boats operations for Combined Operational Services Command (COSC), who were killed when a US Air Force aircraft mistook the lugger on which they were travelling for the enemy when it was off Pongani.

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Accession Number
150849
Photographer
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
October 1942
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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