The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Kokoda, New Guinea. November 1942. A load of black loam is spread over the remains of the possible enemy airfield defence post by members of an RAAF airfield construction unit, during extension of the airstrip.
Kokoda, New Guinea. November 1942. After clearing the tropical growth at the edge of the airstrip this RAAF airfield construction unit appears to have unearthed an abandoned enemy airfield defence pos
Kokoda, New Guinea. November 1942. After the capture of Kokoda and its airstrip, action commenced in extending the airfield for greater use particularly in supplying stores and equipment for forward a
Kokoda, New Guinea. November 1942. After the capture of Kokoda and its airstrip, action commenced in extending the airfield for greater use particularly in supplying stores and equipment for forward a
New Guinea. November 1942. An Allied transport aircraft passes over the Kokoda airstrip.
Kokoda, New Guinea. November 1942. Native bearers lift the wing of an Allied transport aircraft which became bogged on the airstrip.
American servicemen and South Vietnamese troops help load an RAAF Caribou at an airstrip near the border of North Vietnam. The aircraft is unloaded, loaded and take off again as quickly as possible t
