The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A view of Gneisenau Point on the Huon Peninsula taken from seawards showing two beached Landing Craft Mechanised and a submersible Japanese oil tanker in the background. The sheer face of the point was scaled by a platoon of the 2/17th infantry Battalion of the 9th Division in their pursuit of the Japanese.
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 Landing Craft Mechanised loaded with men of the 30th Infantry Battalion. Two of these craft carried the Battalion’s fully equipped “D” Company from Kelanoa to Point Sio on the Huon Peninsula.
Troop traffic between Kelanoa and Point Sio on the Huon Peninsula is by Landing Craft Mechanised (LCM). This LCM has eighty men of the 30th Infantry Battalion and their equipment aboard.
Members of the United States 476th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion pictured on a Landing Craft Mechanised (LCM) “Flack” boat off Yagomai, Huon Peninsula.
Members of the United States 476th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion pictured aboard a Landing Craft Mechanised (LCM) “Flack” boat at White Beach, Saidor on the Huon Peninsula.
The landing beach at Sio Mission on the Huon Peninsula with a Landing Craft Mechanised on shore near the 4th Battalion Headquarters. The picture is taken from the 23rd Battery Observation Post.
