070051 Accession Number: 070051

Description

A submersible Japanese oil tanker lying beached at Gneisenau Point on the Huon Peninsula. This view taken from a passing Landing Craft Mechanised shows the gorge and part of the sheer face scaled by a platoon of the 2/17th Battalion of the 9th Division in pursuing the Japanese.

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Accession Number
070051
Photographer
Sergeant Keith Carr Rainsford
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
24 February 1944
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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