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PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1942-07-11. AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS RETURNING FROM A COASTLINE PATROL SEARCHING FOR THE REMAINS OF JAPANESE BOMBERS SHOT DOWN IN A RAID ON PORT MORESBY. THE PLANES WERE SEEN DIVING TO EARTH IN THE DISTANCE, AND PARTIES WERE DESPATCHED TO CAPTURE ANY OF THE CREWS WHO MAY HAVE BALED OUT SAFELY.
PAPUA. 1942-08-18. VIEW OF SEVEN MILE AERODROME NEAR PORT MORESBY AFTER A RAID BY 24 JAPANESE BOMBERS. THE CASUALTIES WERE ONE KILLED AND THIRTEEN INJURED; FOUR PLANES WERE DESTROYED AND SEVERAL DAMAG
PAPUA, 1942-08-18. A TRANSPORT PLANE BURNING ON THE RUNWAY OF SEVEN MILE AERODROME, NEAR PORT MORESBY, AFTER A RAID BY TWENTY-FOUR JAPANESE BOMBERS. ONE MAN WAS KILLED AND THIRTEEN INJURED, FOUR PLANE
PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1942-07. THESE GUNNERS FOUGHT GERMAN AND ITALIAN PLANES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. HERE THEY ARE SEEN MANNING AN ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN DURING A JAPANESE RAID IN NEW GUINEA. THEY WORK STRIPPE
Group portrait of the American crews of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft which participated in close co-operation with the RAF and British Fleet in the Mediterranean Naval engagement. T
PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1942-07-20. THE ARMY'S "NAVY"- A PRIMITIVE BUT EFFECTIVE WAY OF PATROLLING THE BEACHES. THESE AUSTRALIAN INFANTRYMEN ARE RETURNING FROM A PATROL IN A NATIVE CANOE. ONE MAN MAY BE
OFF PORT MORESBY, PAPUA. 1942-08-30. SOME OF THE CREW OF M.V. MALAITA, WHO AFTER THE SHIP HAD BEEN TORPEDOED BY AN ENEMY SUBMARINE OFF PORT MORESBY, WERE SAFELY TAKEN OFF AND LATER RETURNED TO HELP BR
