070507 Accession Number: 070507

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412576 Sergeant Kenneth Maxwell Douglas, Royal Australian Air Force, being assisted into his parachute by Private First Class Vance Jackson of Fayetteville, North Carolina, a member of the United States Military Police, before taking off from Ward’s Drome (Wards Airfield), Port Moresby in a Kittyhawk aircraft.

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Accession Number
070507
Photographer
Sergeant W B Stuckey
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
c February 1944
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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