The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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.
“D” Company, 4th Infantry Battalion, disembarking from a Landing Craft Mechanised (LCM) at the land beach near Sio Mission, Huon Peninsula. Three personnel have been identified on the beach to the ri
NX112720 Major Edward William Gregory Brigade Major, Headquarters 8th Brigade, at left, with the 8th Brigade Commander NX110380 Brigadier Claude Ewen Cameron, pictured in a Landing Craft Mechanised (L
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.
Men of the 4th Infantry Battalion taking advantage of a good beach near Sio Mission, Huon Peninsula. Good bathing is possible at various beaches on the coast.
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 aboard a Landing Craft Mechanised (LCM) “Flack” boat at White Beach, Saidor on the Huon Peninsula.
